A 67-year-old woman with recurrent hypoglycemia: Non-islet cell tumour hypoglycemia

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 359-361

  Ma, Ronald C W ^a   Tong, Peter C Y ^a   Chan, Juliana C N ^a   Cockram, Clive S ^a   Chan, Michael H M ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; GLUCOSE; OCTREOTIDE; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; STEROID; TETRACOSACTIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; PANCREAS NON ISLET CELL TUMOR; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEURA TUMOR; RECURRENT DISEASE; STEROID THERAPY; VIRUS CARRIER;

EID: 23944526827     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.050422     Document Type: Article

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