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There seems to be a world-wide increase in the incidence of tumors among immunosuppressed patients. Of 1350 renal allografts transplanted in the past 23 years at the Department of Transplantation and Surgery, 56 cases had malignant tumors. The case of a 58-year-old female patient is reported, with disseminated primary carcinoid in the liver detected 86 days after renal transplantation. According to the literature only 39 patients with primary liver carcinoids have been reported until 1997, but this is the first where the carcinoid developed in an immunosuppressed patient. The rapid progression of the carcinoid could be associated with the immunosuppression.
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Nemes, B., Podder, H., Járay, J. et al. Primary Hepatic Carcinoid in a Renal Transplant Patient. Pathol. Oncol. Res. 5, 67–69 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1053/paor.1999.0067
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