Neuroendocrine Tumor Causing Carcinoid Syndrome in the Elderly

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) causing carcinoid syndrome are very rare. Patients can have very general symptoms and tumors can be missed especially in the elderly where many symptoms may be attributed to the aging process. It is of the utmost importance to do a full workup on elderly patients even if...

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Autores principales: Hosna, Asma U, Miller, Daniel, Stern, Roger, Shah, Deesha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9617465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324346
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29736
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description Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) causing carcinoid syndrome are very rare. Patients can have very general symptoms and tumors can be missed especially in the elderly where many symptoms may be attributed to the aging process. It is of the utmost importance to do a full workup on elderly patients even if the symptoms can be explained by aging alone.
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spelling pubmed-96174652022-11-01 Neuroendocrine Tumor Causing Carcinoid Syndrome in the Elderly Hosna, Asma U Miller, Daniel Stern, Roger Shah, Deesha Cureus Internal Medicine Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) causing carcinoid syndrome are very rare. Patients can have very general symptoms and tumors can be missed especially in the elderly where many symptoms may be attributed to the aging process. It is of the utmost importance to do a full workup on elderly patients even if the symptoms can be explained by aging alone. Cureus 2022-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9617465/ /pubmed/36324346 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29736 Text en Copyright © 2022, Hosna et al. https://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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Hosna, Asma U
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Neuroendocrine Tumor Causing Carcinoid Syndrome in the Elderly
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title_fullStr Neuroendocrine Tumor Causing Carcinoid Syndrome in the Elderly
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title_short Neuroendocrine Tumor Causing Carcinoid Syndrome in the Elderly
title_sort neuroendocrine tumor causing carcinoid syndrome in the elderly
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9617465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324346
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