Carcinoid tumors of the gastrointestinal tract

Populations of Strongyloid Infective Larvae in Pastures After Sheep Are Removed From Grazing

“…A number of studies have been reported by workers in the United States (Shorb 1942;Hawkins, Cole and Kline 1944;Doll and Hull 1948;Kates 1950) in which pastures have been contaminated by grazing with infected sheep, and survival of free-living stages has been tested by grazing with worm-free sheep at intervals after contamination. The test animals were then slaughtered and examined for the presence of parasites.…”

Massive hepatic resection for the carcinoid syndrome

“…In the present case and case 1 of Wilson and Butterick (1959), no primary lesion was found at the first laparotomy and it was not until a second operation that a length of ileum containing several tumours was found. Such multiplicity of origin is not uncommon (MacDonald, 1956) and one case reported by Shorb and McCune (1964) had 90 cm of ileum resected containing no less than 96 separate tumours. Even when laparotomy discloses an obvious primary lesion, the finding should not deter the surgeon from making a most careful search for other carcinoid tumours throughout the alimentary tract.…”

“…At present, medical treatment is of limited value. Removal of as much secreting tissue as possible is the most rational approach and palliative resection of hepatic metastases has been carried out in a small number of cases with encouraging results (Stanford, Davis, Gunter, and Hobart, 1958;Wilson and Butterick, 1959;Crile, 1959;Williams and Azzopardi, 1960;Mosenthal, 1963;Shorb and McCune, 1964;Chandler and Foster, 1965;Adson and Jones, 1966;Ludin, Fahrlander, and Renggli, 1966;Bersohn and Bleloch, 1967;Gardner, Dollinger, Silen, Back, and O'Reilly, 1967;Leahy and Moloney, 1967). We now report a further case, where there was complete relief of symptoms following resection of primary lesions in the ileum and massive hepatic metastases.…”