Would you pursue a colonoscopy for a patient in their 20s with constipation and rectal bleeding if they had a first-degree relative who died young from a "carcinoid tumor"?
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Hospital Medicine · Temple University Hospital
Carcinoid tumor is relatively uncommon in someone who is relatively healthy and young. I would make sure to consider all the more common diagnoses and workup before considering carcinoid tumor. Moreover, carcinoid tumor is associated with diarrhea rather than constipation. Neuroendocrine tumor of th...