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Rectal Carcinoid
by lulu1000, Mar 07, 2008 12:51PM
I am undergoing very slow, frustrating, round about testing to discover the cause of headaches, sweating and chronic non infectious watery diarrhea. I had a colonoscopy a couple years back. All I remember was that dr. said he removed one tiny rectal polyp which was he said was benign. My question is whether a suspected rectal carcinoid tumor would be easily identified by just looking at it or would it require suspicion and special pathology biopsy tests to confirm or rule out a carcinoid.
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by CalGal, Mar 07, 2008 11:47PM
To: Lulu
Rectal polyps are typically not assoicated with carcinoid problems. But if it were, it would have to be looked at pathologically to determine whether or not it was benign or other.
by carly18, Apr 14, 2009 01:49PM
Have your doctors perform a 5 Hiaa urine test. this will tell you if you have carcinoid tumor or a tumor on your adrinaline glands. These tumors can cause you to have headaches and sweat.
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