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 | Media file 1: Lung, carcinoid. Right, Chest radiograph (CXR) in a 45-year-old woman demonstrates complete collapse of the left lower lobe. The cause of collapse is not identified on the image. Left, CT scan of the same patient obtained with soft-tissue window settings shows a hyperattenuating nodule (126 HU) within the left main bronchus. This is a typical bronchial carcinoid and was confirmed on bronchoscopic biopsy. |
 | Media file 2: Lung, carcinoid. Right, CT scan viewed with mediastinal window settings in a 68-year-old man presenting with a productive cough and hemoptysis demonstrates a densely calcified, endobronchial carcinoid tumor in the bronchus intermedius. Left, CT scan obtained with lung window settings reveal severe postobstructive cystic bronchiectasis. |
 | Media file 3: Lung, carcinoid. Abdominal CT scan in a 70-year-old man presenting with liver metastases. Liver biopsy demonstrated a staining pattern typical of a carcinoid tumor. |
 | Media file 4: Lung, carcinoid. CT scans of the thorax in the same patient as in Image 3 reveals asymmetry of the bronchovascular bundles in the apex of the upper lobe. These are due to a small, subtle, hyperattenuating, peripheral, solitary pulmonary nodule immediately adjacent to the apical segmental bronchus of the right upper lobe. This finding is consistent with a primary bronchial carcinoid tumor. Right, Image with mediastinal window settings. Left, Image with lung window settings. |
 | Media file 5: Lung, carcinoid. Right, Standard posteroanterior (PA) chest radiograph of a 62-year-old man (a nonsmoker) shows a coin lesion at the base of the left lung. Left, CT scan obtained with lung window settings confirms a mass lesion in the left lower lobe. No lymphadenopathy was detectable with the mediastinal window setting. Note thickening of the lesser fissure; this is unrelated to the underlying pathology. Findings from percutaneous needle biopsy confirmed a carcinoid. |
 | Media file 6: Lung, carcinoid. Indium-111 octreotide scan of the thorax and subdiaphragmatic areas shows a primary lung carcinoid (arrow) and metastases in the liver. |
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Keywords
neuroendocrine carcinoma, Kulchitsky cell carcinoma, KCC, bronchial carcinoid tumors, bronchial adenomas, typical carcinoids, atypical carcinoids, small-cell carcinomas, Kulchitsky cells, argentaffin cells, pulmonary carcinoids, primary pulmonary neoplasms, lung neoplasms, lung cancers, pulmonary cancers
