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Advanced appendiceal goblet cell carcinoids with intestinal obstruction: two case reports.

Junichi KatoAkinori MarutaYohei ShirakamiTaku MizutaniNoritaka OzawaTakayasu IdetaJun TakadaMasaya KubotaHiroyasu SakaiTakashi IbukaHiroshi ArakiMasahito Shimizu
Published in: Clinical journal of gastroenterology (2020)
A goblet cell carcinoid is quite rare and has features, wherein, a carcinoid-like image and an adenocarcinoma-like image coexist. We encountered two cases of rare goblet cell carcinoid originating in the appendix. Case 1 is that of a 48-year-old man with a chief complaint of abdominal distension and case 2 is that of a 64-year-old woman with a chief complaint of constipation. At the time of diagnosis, both cases had already metastasized to the peritoneum and other organs, and no radical surgical treatment could be administered in either case. Chemotherapies were performed according to the regimen for colon cancer, and they were effective to a certain extent. During the course of treatment, however, both cases developed intestinal obstruction, presumably due to peritoneal dissemination, which led to worse condition and death several months afterwards. Chemotherapy for goblet cell carcinoids has not yet reached a consensus, and further studies and establishment of therapeutic strategy are desired in the future.
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