Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Surgical treatment of a rare primary renal carcinoid tumor with liver metastasis | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Open Access Case report Surgical treatment of a rare primary renal carcinoid tumor with liver metastasis Roberto Gedaly 1 Hoonbae Jeon1 Thomas D Johnston1 Patrick P McHugh1 Randall G Rowland2 and Dinesh Ranjan1 Address Division of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery Department of Surgery University of Kentucky Medical Center Lexington Kentucky USA and 2Division of Urology Department of Surgery University of Kentucky Medical Center Lexington Kentucky USA Email Roberto Gedaly - rgeda2@ Hoonbae Jeon - rgeda2@ Thomas D Johnston - tdjohn1@ Patrick P McHugh - Randall G Rowland - rrowlan@ Dinesh Ranjan - dranj1@ Corresponding author Published 22 April 2008 Received 31 January 2008 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6 41 doi 1477-7819-6-41 Accepted 22 April 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 41 2008 Gedaly 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 characteristically low grade malignant neoplasms with neuroendocrine differentiation that arise in various body sites most commonly the lung and gastrointestinal tract but less frequently the kidneys breasts ovaries testes prostate and other locations. We report a case of a carcinoid of renal origin with synchronous single liver metastases on radiological studies. Case presentation A 45 year-old patient who presented with abdominal pain was found on CT scan to have lesions in the right ovary right kidney and left hepatic lobe. CA-125 CEA and CA 19-9 were within normal limits as were preoperative liver function tests and renal function. Biopsy of the liver mass demonstrated .
