[Mixed carcinoid-adenocarcinoma tumor of the appendix: a case report and diagnostic and therapeutic considerations].

The layout of the work has stayed motivated from the recent observation of mixed carcinoid, located to the appendix and wide to the peritoneal cable, joint to our observation in an elderly patient with aspecific demonstration clinical-symptomatologic. The study of the endocrine tumors is in continuous evolution also if, to the actual state, there is a better comprehension of this neoplasm, variegated and complex and, under some appearances, still not known well. Jejunoileal carcinoid tumors differ, under many appearances, from those occurring in other sites of the gut. They have relatively high rate of transmural invasion and aggressive clinical behavior, contrasted by a scarce objectivity; the demonstration of symptoms generally implicates the presence of an illness in advanced stage. Also pharmacological therapy made important progress, with the possibility of administer composed able to interfere with the development and the neoplastic growth.