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What is a carcinoid?

What is a carcinoid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) A form of slow-growing tumour originating in the neuroendocrine system.
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A related neoplasm, the carcinoid tumor, is another rare lesion in the esophagus.
The symptoms of carcinoid are produced by excess secretion of serotonin, and the flushing by histamine and tachykinins.
These findings were thought to be consistent with carcinoid tumor with metastases to the liver.
Other medical conditions commonly associated with anxiety include mitral valve prolapse, carcinoid syndrome and pheochromocytoma.
The tumor cell was found to be restiform and tenioid and it showed characteristics of carcinoid.
The histologic, cytochemical, and immunohistochemical features resembled a carcinoid tumor, and metastasis to the bone marrow was considered initially.

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