Incidental Diagnosis of Carcinoid Disease by Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography and Subsequent Discovery of a Neuroendocrine Tumor during Cardiac Surgery

CASE (Phila). 2020 Jun 4;4(4):216-220. doi: 10.1016/j.case.2020.05.003. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

Anna Martin¹, Alycia Wanat-Hawthorne¹, Aravind Sanjeevaiah², Neelan Doolabh³, Ravi V Joshi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas.
² Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas.
³ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas.

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Keywords: Carcinoid; Neuroendocrine; Pulmonic regurgitation; Transesophageal echocardiography; Tricuspid regurgitation.

Publication types

Case Reports