Spontaneous Resolution Of Multifocal Gastric Enterochromaffin-like Cell Carcinoid Tumours
Lancet 1(8589): Apr 9 1988; 821
View Original Source →Abstract
A case is reported in which the patient was alive and well twelve years after a palliative resection for a malignant ulcerative adenocarcinoma of the left colon, Grade II. At operation, multiple liver metastases were found along with nodal involvement. When the patient was examined twelve years after operation, no evidence of carcinoma was found.
Case Details
Clinical Characteristics
Achlorhydria secondary to autoimmune atrophic gastritis
Remission Characteristics
Many of the tumours have spontaneously disappeared
Treatment & Mechanisms
Proposed Remission Mechanisms
Not discussed
Clinical Treatment
Remained untreated but have been monitored endoscopically for some years
Additional Notes
The findings of these two patients suggest that in many multifocal ECL cell carcinoid tumours associated with achlorhydria and autoimmune atrophic gastritis may run a benign course which can end with the spontaneous regression of the tumors.