title: [Carcinoid tumor of the liver].
abstract: Multiple primary hepatic carcinoid tumours of the liver was a chance finding at autopsy of an 81-year-old woman. There had been no signs of this or any other paraneoplastic syndrome in life. The tumour had a characteristic solid-alveolar structure (type A of Soga) with only a few atypical cells. Neuron-specific enolase and chromogranin were demonstrated immunohistologically in almost all tumour cells, but S-100 protein, human choriogonadotropin and serotonin in only a few. Peptides and alpha-fetoprotein, however, could not be demonstrated in the tumours. Electronmicroscopy revealed secretory granules of variable size and density in the cytoplasm of the tumour cells.
authors.affiliation: Section of Clinical Pathology, Kure Kyousai Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Masuda
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tahara
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wittekind
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001344:Autopsy; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Karzinoid-Tumor der Leber.