Persistent hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia of infancy (nesidioblastosis): A report from Kuwait

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-59

  Ramadan, Dina G ^a   Badawi, Mona H ^a   Zaki, Mohamed ^a   El Mazidi, Zaidan ^a   Ismail, Essam A R ^a   El Anzi, Hussein ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAZOXIDE; OCTREOTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INBREEDING; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INSULINOMA; KUWAIT; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; SEIZURE;

ARABS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERINSULINISM; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KUWAIT; MALE; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032972219     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724939992644     Document Type: Article

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