[Unusual association of somatostatin-secreting thyroid cancer and a calcitonin-secreting duodenal endocrine tumor. Is it an entity?]

Ann Endocrinol (Paris). 1993;54(3):175-9.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We report a patient with a vesicular thyroid carcinoma secreting somatostatin and associated to an endocrine duodenal calcitonin secreting tumour. Increase of plasm somatostatin level induced an endocrine syndrome which completely resolved after thyroidectomy. By contrast, the digestive tumour remained asymptomatic. Six months after surgery, the course was marked by a relapse of the thyroid tumour along with pulmonary metastasis. At that time, pathological analysis showed only indifferentiated tumoural tissue.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Calcitonin / metabolism*
  • Duodenal Neoplasms / complications*
  • Duodenal Neoplasms / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Somatostatin / metabolism*
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / complications*
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / metabolism*

Substances

  • Somatostatin
  • Calcitonin