Endoscopic diagnosis of a bleeding ileal carcinoid tumour.
Carcinoid tumour accounts for one per cent of all gastrointestinal neoplasms and has been reported in 0.5% of appendicectomy specimens. Local gastrointestinal complications occur infrequently and we report a case of repeated and massive gastrointestinal haemorrhage from a non-metabolically active carcinoid tumour of the distal ileum diagnosed by colonoscopy.
D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003113:Colonoscopy; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007078:Ileal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged