Non-Islet Cell Tumor Hypoglycemia Is Caused by Big IGF-II in a Patient with a Carcinosarcoma of the Uterus

We report a 72-year-old Japanese woman with severe hypoglycemia. The laboratory data, which revealed the suppression of serum insulin, suggested the existence of non-islet cell tumor hypoglycemia (NICTH). Abdominal computed tomography demonstrated the presence of a huge uterine tumor. The patient wa...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Internal Medicine 2015, Vol.54(24), pp.3165-3169
Hauptverfasser:	Honma, Hiroyuki, Takahashi, Yoshihiko, Matsui, Mizue, Satoh, Takashi, Fukuda, Izumi, Takahashi, Kazuma, Takebe, Noriko, Nagasawa, Kan, Ono, Mitsutaka, Sasai, Takayoshi, Kajiwara, Takashi, Sugai, Tamotsu, Satoh, Jo, Ishigaki, Yasushi
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged carcinosarcoma Carcinosarcoma - diagnosis Carcinosarcoma - physiopathology Diagnosis, Differential Female Humans Hypoglycemia - etiology Insulin-Like Growth Factor II - biosynthesis insulin-like growth factor-II non-islet cell tumor hypoglycemia Tomography, X-Ray Computed - adverse effects Uterine Neoplasms - diagnosis Uterine Neoplasms - physiopathology
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