Chronic diarrhea: The first symptom of a metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma

Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 Feb;41(2):105-107. doi: 10.1016/j.gastrohep.2017.01.005. Epub 2017 Mar 1.
[Article in English, Spanish]
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Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / blood
  • Calcitonin / blood
  • Carcinoembryonic Antigen / blood
  • Carcinoma, Medullary / blood
  • Carcinoma, Medullary / complications
  • Carcinoma, Medullary / diagnostic imaging
  • Carcinoma, Medullary / secondary*
  • Chronic Disease
  • Diarrhea / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Proteins / blood
  • Neoplasm Proteins / genetics
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret / genetics
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / blood
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • Carcinoembryonic Antigen
  • Neoplasm Proteins
  • Calcitonin
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret
  • RET protein, human