Huge typical pulmonary carcinoid presented with gigantism syndrome

A 27-year-old male patient presented with cough and right-sided, light thoracic pain. His physical appearance showed typical features of gigantism. Subsequently, further diagnostic work-up showed elevated level of growth hormone and a huge tumor of the right lung, identifying a typical pulmonary car...

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Autores principales: Beshay, Morris, Gutierrez, Federico, Windmöller, Beatrice Ariane, Förster, Christina, Mertzlufft, Fritz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Singapore 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7868318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32725474
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11748-020-01445-9
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author Beshay, Morris
Gutierrez, Federico
Windmöller, Beatrice Ariane
Förster, Christina
Mertzlufft, Fritz
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description A 27-year-old male patient presented with cough and right-sided, light thoracic pain. His physical appearance showed typical features of gigantism. Subsequently, further diagnostic work-up showed elevated level of growth hormone and a huge tumor of the right lung, identifying a typical pulmonary carcinoid tumor (TPCT). Curative surgery was performed leading to normalization of the elevated growth hormone levels few days after surgery. Two- and five-year follow-up showed no signs of recurrence. Respected to tumor size, we determined the largest TPCT to be reported in medical literature history.
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spelling pubmed-78683182021-02-16 Huge typical pulmonary carcinoid presented with gigantism syndrome Beshay, Morris Gutierrez, Federico Windmöller, Beatrice Ariane Förster, Christina Mertzlufft, Fritz Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report A 27-year-old male patient presented with cough and right-sided, light thoracic pain. His physical appearance showed typical features of gigantism. Subsequently, further diagnostic work-up showed elevated level of growth hormone and a huge tumor of the right lung, identifying a typical pulmonary carcinoid tumor (TPCT). Curative surgery was performed leading to normalization of the elevated growth hormone levels few days after surgery. Two- and five-year follow-up showed no signs of recurrence. Respected to tumor size, we determined the largest TPCT to be reported in medical literature history. Springer Singapore 2020-07-28 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7868318/ /pubmed/32725474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11748-020-01445-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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