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Rev Rhum Engl Ed
; 66(1): 46-8, 1999 Jan.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-10036699
RESUMO
Two case-reports of metastatic bone disease in patients with bronchial carcinoid tumors illustrate the diagnostic challenges raised by these slowly-growing malignancies of which the primary frequently escapes early identification. The first patient had the typical picture of a primary with a single bone metastasis. Unusual features in the second patient were the large number of bone metastases, involvement of distal skeletal sites, and elevation of serotonin and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid levels.