carcinoid in a sentence
Examples
- Carcinoid cancer is so rare that most doctors never see a case of it.
- It can be done in cases like carcinoid syndrome, primary or secondary cancer.
- He did a biopsy and diagnosed a low-grade malignancy known as a carcinoid.
- It is used as an indicator for pancreas and prostate cancer and in carcinoid syndrome.
- Her carcinoid tumor was found by accident, and it was just 1 centimeter in diameter.
- Tumours of the small intestine include gastrointestinal stromal tumours, lipomas, hamartomas and carcinoid syndromes.
- The flushing that occurs in medullary thyroid carcinoma is indistinguishable from that associated with carcinoid syndrome.
- Others learn that they have carcinoid tumors only after they have grown and begun to cause symptoms.
- Entero-pancreatic gastrinomas and thymic and bronchial carcinoids are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality.
- Tumors from midgut cells, such as ileal carcinoid usually contain and release large quantities of serotonin.