DIGESTIVE CARCINOID-TUMORS

Three examples of intestinal carcinoid tumours are reported. As the si gns in conventional radiology are non-specific and inconstant, the com puted radiographic signs are stressed. Small bowel examination showed both direct signs, with intraluminal filling defects, and indirect sig ns with separated bowel loops, sometimes angulated and fixed. In one u nusual case, all the jejunal loops were affected. On CT the specific f inding was a retractile mesenteric infiltration.