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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 32, 840-844, Copyright © 1986 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Urinary serotonin in the diagnosis of carcinoid tumors

JM Feldman

To determine whether measurement of serotonin in urine would give useful complementary information to the usual measurement of 5- hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in urine and platelet serotonin in platelets, I measured these analytes in 75 consecutive patients with carcinoid tumors, and found that 75% had above-normal urinary 5-HIAA excretion, 64% had above-normal serotonin excretion, and 64% had above- normal platelet serotonin concentration. Six patients had increased urinary serotonin, but 5-HIAA excretion and platelet serotonin concentration were normal. Only two of a further 50 patients with solid noncarcinoid tumors--and none of 55 patients with flushing or diarrhea, who did not prove to have a carcinoid tumor--had increased urinary serotonin. Ingestion of four bananas (a food rich in serotonin) increased urinary 5-HIAA but not urinary serotonin excretion of seven normal subjects. Evidently, measurement of urinary serotonin excretion is helpful in the evaluation of patients with suspected carcinoid tumors.


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