title: Solitary facial metastasis of an ileal carcinoid.
abstract: We report an unusual case of solitary facial metastasis as first clinical manifestation of an ileal carcinoid. Only one similar case has been reported in the literature. The patient, a 79 years old man, was referred for the excision of a right facial subcutaneous nodule. Pathology showed a soft tissue metastasis of mid-gut carcinoid. After a complete radiological investigation, a small carcinoid of the terminal ileum was found and the patient underwent a right emicolectomy. Pathology confirmed a typical EC cells carcinoid identical to that of the facial tumor. At 2 years of follow-up no clinical or radiological signs of others metastases were found.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, University of Parma, Italy. r.dalval@unipr.it
authors.forename: Raffaele
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dalla Valle
authors.forename: Cesare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bordi
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Milione
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: De Lisi
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sianesi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D003082:Colectomy; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007078:Ileal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D012074:Remission Induction