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Valvular Heart Disease — Pathology — Topic Test

16 questions · exam mode (answers revealed at the end). 18 min suggested.

Q1.Moderate
A 55-year-old man has chronic watery diarrhoea, flushing and right-sided valvular heart disease. Urinary 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid is markedly elevated. A small-bowel tumour biopsy shows nests and trabeculae of uniform cells with salt-and-pepper chromatin that stain strongly for chromogranin A and synaptophysin. The systemic syndrome appears only because the tumour has spread to which site?
ALiver
BLung
CPeritoneum
DRegional lymph nodes