Pulmonary Carcinoid Tumor: Case Report

• Autor(a) principal: Portelli Magalhães, Fernanda Ramos
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Manhães, José Cláudio da Silva, Palmeira Gama, Mayra Drummond
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Científica da Faculdade de Medicina de Campos
• Texto Completo: https://www.fmc.br/ojs/index.php/RCFMC/article/view/115
• topic: neoplasias pulmonares; neoplasia neuroendócrina; tumor carcinóide; lung neoplasms; neuroendocrine tumor; carcinoid tumor

Background: Carcinoid tumors are rare neuroendocrine neoplasms of slow growth. In most reported cases in the literature, they are diagnosed between the fifth and sixth decades of life, manifested byrecurrent pulmonary infections, cough, hemoptysis, or wheezing. It can be classified into typical and atypical and the optimal treatment is surgical resection.Objective: To report a case of Pulmonary Carcinoid Tumor.Methods: Review of medical records.Case Report: Patient, female, 46 years old, asymptomatic, referred to the Department of Thoracic Surgery due to an incidental finding on chest radiograph of a mass located in the middle third of the left lung. Pulmonary lobectomy was performed as surgical treatment, with a satisfactory outcome. The diagnosis of pulmonary carcinoid tumor was confirmed by immunohistochemistry.Conclusion: This report emphasized that the best treatment for pulmonary carcinoid tumors is surgical resection, with an excellent prognosis.