Small bowel carcinoid: a rare cause of bowel obstruction.
Carcinoid tumours though commonly affect the appendix, are a rare cause of small bowel obstruction, causing a diagnostic dilemma. We presented a 70-year-old man with small bowel obstruction, not responding to conservative management, which required an emergency laparotomy and was found to have a mass encasing the mid-jejunal loops and mesentery that was resected and reported to be a carcinoid tumour.
Department of General Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Gabriel
G
Rodrigues
Raghunath
R
Prabhu
Bharadwaj
B
Ravi
D000368:Aged; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D007579:Jejunal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D007580:Jejunal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed