title: Gastric carcinoid in a young woman with systemic lupus erythematosus and atrophic autoimmune gastritis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Gastric carcinoid is a rare tumour that is associated with chronic atrophic gastritis in the majority of cases. It usually occurs in the 6th or 7th decade of life and is rarely diagnosed in patients under 30 years of age.
  
  
  METHODS
  We describe a case of multiple gastric carcinoids in a 23-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus and atrophic autoimmune gastritis--an association that has not been reported previously.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The combination of atrophic autoimmune gastritis and gastric carcinoid with other autoimmune disorders has rarely been reported in the English medical literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The fact that it mostly concerns (relatively) young patients may suggest a potential causative relation between those autoimmune disorders and the early development of atrophic gastritis with hypergastrinaemia, which subsequently leads to the occurrence of gastric carcinoid tumours at a young age.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital, Medical School of Crete, Herakleion, Greece.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Papadimitraki
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: de Bree
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tzardi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Skordilis
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kofteridis
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Tsiftsis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016736:Antiphospholipid Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy; D005755:Gastrins / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology*; D005757:Gastritis, Atrophic / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D013270:Stomach / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D005755:Gastrins