Abstract
A 73-year-old man admitted for left flank pain was diagnosed with diverticulitis. After antibiotic administration and starvation therapy, he had remission of abdominal pain and inflammatory blood test responses turned negative, but intermittent abdominal pain remaind. Abdominal enhanced computed tomography (CT) showed a mass lesion in the left abdomen. Surgery conducted January 8, 2002, showed a jejunal tumor 50cm from the Treitz ligament with a 4cm swelling lymph node. The resected specimen showed a type 3 tumor about 30mm in diameter with a 40mm lymph node. The histopathological diagnosis was carcinoid tumor of the jejunum, se, n (+). The patient had recurrent intermittent abdominal pain and CT showed swelling abdominal lymph nodes and no liver metastasis, diagnosed as a rare case of jejunal carcinoid tumor.
