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Another possible primary carcinoid tumour of skin?

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A 62-year-old female patient presented with a skin nodule on the chest wall which histological and ultrastructural examination showed to be a carcinoid tumour. Subsequent clinical investigation and follow-up of the patient have revealed no evidence of a carcinoid tumour elsewhere in the body, suggesting that the skin nodule itself may be the primary lesion.

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  1. Department of Histopathology and Experimental Pathology, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, Reynolds Building, St. Dunstan's Road, W 6 8 RP, London, UK

    Peter A. Smith

  2. Department of Surgery, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, Reynolds Building, St. Dunstan's Road, W 6 8 RP, London, UK

    Richard H. Chappell

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Smith, P.A., Chappell, R.H. Another possible primary carcinoid tumour of skin?. Vichows Archiv A Pathol Anat 408, 99–103 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00739966

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