Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Minute ampullary carcinoid tumor with lymph node metastases: a case report and review of literature | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Open Access Minute ampullary carcinoid tumor with lymph node metastases a case report and review of literature Eri Senda 1 Koji Fujimoto2 Katsuhiro Ohnishi1 Akihiro Higashida1 Cho Ashida1 Toshio Okutani1 Shigeru Sakano2 Masayuki Yamamoto2 Rieko Ito3 and Hajime Yamada1 Address Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Shinko Hospital Kobe Hyogo 651-0072 Japan 2Department of Surgery Shinko Hospital Kobe Hyogo 651-0072 Japan and 3Department of Pathology Shinko Hospital Kobe Hyogo 651-0072 Japan Email Eri Senda - erisenda@ Koji Fujimoto - fujimoto@ Katsuhiro Ohnishi - 50702@ Akihiro Higashida - tonden@ Cho Ashida - ca1218@ Toshio Okutani - okutani@ Shigeru Sakano - sakano@ Masayuki Yamamoto - ce36895@ Rieko Ito - ito@ Hajime Yamada - yamada@ Corresponding author Published 22 January 2009 Received 20 November 2008 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7 9 doi 1477-7819-7-9 Accepted 22 January 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 9 2009 Senda et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Carcinoid tumors are usually considered to have a low degree of malignancy and show slow progression. One of the factors indicating the malignancy of these tumors is their size and small ampullary carcinoid tumors have been sometimes treated by endoscopic resection. Case presentation We report a case of a 63-year-old woman with a minute ampullary carcinoid tumor that was 7 mm in diameter but was associated with 2 peripancreatic lymph node metastases. Mild elevation of liver enzymes was .
