Synchronous multiple carcinoma with small intestine and pulmonary neuroendocrine involvement: A case report

Medicine (Baltimore). 2017 Nov;96(45):e8623. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000008623.

Abstract

Rationale: In clinical work, neuroendocrine synchronous multiplicity carcinoma was relatively rare. Most were confirmed by the pathological diagnosis of a certain part of the body combined with the imaging of the whole body, while cases that had both pathological and immunohistochemistry diagnosis were few.

Patient concerns: A patient who presented with abdominal pain visited our hospital, and was diagnosed with lesions in both the small intestine and lung.

Diagnoses: Both were considered primary tumors by imaging, and diagnosed as neuroendocrine carcinomas by pathology.

Interventions: The intestinal lesion was surgically resected, and the lung tumor treated by chemoradiotherapy.

Outcomes: The survival time of this patient exceeded 24 months.

Lessons: The diagnosis relied on clinical, imaging, pathological, and immunohistochemical features, which confirmed a synchronous multiple carcinoma. Treatment was based on the pathological types. Through this case report, the clinical and pathological data of neuroendocrine synchronous multiplicity carcinoma could be enriched.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / diagnosis*
  • Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / therapy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intestinal Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Intestinal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Intestinal Neoplasms / surgery
  • Intestine, Small / diagnostic imaging
  • Intestine, Small / surgery
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology
  • Lung Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / diagnosis*
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / pathology
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / therapy