PMID: 2102426May 1, 1990Paper

Clinical features and treatment of cutaneous carcinoid

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichts-Chirurgie
T HegerD Schettler

Abstract

An exemplary case of a 67-year-old patient with multiple cutaneous metastases of a pulmonary carcinoid primary tumor is presented. The cardinal symptom was severe painfulness of the skin tumors. With chemotherapy the tumor disease advanced. In presenting this case and providing a review of the literature, the primary importance of surgery even in the case of a metastasizing carcinoid is emphasized.

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