Malignant Insulinoma with Extensive Liver Metastases Presenting as Disturbance of Consciousness

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 476-479

  Toyoda, Chizuko ^a,b   Hosokawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Atsumi, Yoshihito ^a   Asahina, Sousuke ^a   Shimada, Akira ^a   Mokubo, Atsuko ^a   Matsuoka, Kenpei ^a   Morinaga, Shôjiroh ^a   Hayashi, Fumihiro ^a,b   Hikita, Miho ^a,b   Tomonari, Haruo ^a,b   Kuriyama, Satoru ^a,b   Inoue, Kiyoharu ^b   Hosoya, Tatsuo ^b  

^a SAISEIKAI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypoglycemia; Insulin secreting tumor; Loss of consciousness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULINOMA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032061221     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.476     Document Type: Article

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