Primary Mediastinal Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Presenting with Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

A mediastinal small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (MSCNC) is a rare form of neuroendocrine malignancy. Diagnosis is challenging and requires pathological identification and imaging studies. These tumors are aggressive and recurrence and metastases frequently complicate patient management. Here, we p...

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Autores principales: Costanzo, Lina R, Kewan, Tariq, Kerwin, Kevin, Daw, Hamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6687428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31417818
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4873
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author Costanzo, Lina R
Kewan, Tariq
Kerwin, Kevin
Daw, Hamed
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description A mediastinal small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (MSCNC) is a rare form of neuroendocrine malignancy. Diagnosis is challenging and requires pathological identification and imaging studies. These tumors are aggressive and recurrence and metastases frequently complicate patient management. Here, we present a case of superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome secondary to circumferential compression by a primary MSCNC.
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spelling pubmed-66874282019-08-15 Primary Mediastinal Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Presenting with Superior Vena Cava Syndrome Costanzo, Lina R Kewan, Tariq Kerwin, Kevin Daw, Hamed Cureus Pathology A mediastinal small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (MSCNC) is a rare form of neuroendocrine malignancy. Diagnosis is challenging and requires pathological identification and imaging studies. These tumors are aggressive and recurrence and metastases frequently complicate patient management. Here, we present a case of superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome secondary to circumferential compression by a primary MSCNC. Cureus 2019-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6687428/ /pubmed/31417818 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4873 Text en Copyright © 2019, Costanzo et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Primary Mediastinal Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Presenting with Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
title Primary Mediastinal Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Presenting with Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
title_full Primary Mediastinal Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Presenting with Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
title_fullStr Primary Mediastinal Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Presenting with Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Primary Mediastinal Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Presenting with Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
title_short Primary Mediastinal Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Presenting with Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
title_sort primary mediastinal small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma presenting with superior vena cava syndrome
topic Pathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6687428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31417818
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4873
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