Anesthetic Management of a Pregnant Patient with Carcinoid Tumor Undergoing Cesarean Delivery

Introduction

●Carcinoid tumors are a rare type of neuroendocrine tumors arising commonly from enterochromaffin cells of the gastrointestinal tract.

 ●Presentation in a pregnant patient might be misleading as

the pathological changes attributed to the tumor could be

masked by the physiological changes of pregnancy.