Table 3:

Presenting symptoms for neuroendocrine tumour (5), (6), (23) (26)

SymptomPercentage of cases
Gastroenteropancreatic
 Abdominal pain28–79
 Bowel obstruction18–24
 Diarrhea10–32
 Carcinoid heart disease8–19
 Flushing4–25
 Gastrointestinal bleed4–10
 Incidental9–18
Bronchopulmonary
 Cough5–27
 Hemoptysis23–32
 Recurrent infection41–49
 Incidental17–39