Carcinoid tumor of the rectum

Carcinoid Tumors of the Rectum Experience with 26 Cases

“…In a review of the literature up to 1957, Lamphier and Ehrlich [3] collected 212 cases and added 6 of their own. From questionnaires sent to 425 surgeons, Freund [4] collected 303 cases of carcinoid tumors of the rectum that had not been previously reported in the literature. These statistics would indicate that this lesion is not as rare as was once thought.…”