Insulinoma presenting as refractory late-onset epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1690-1691

  O'Sullivan, Sean Stephen ^a,b   Redmond, Janice ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b NONE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; C PEPTIDE; CARBAMAZEPINE; DIAZOXIDE; ETIRACETAM; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; ISOTOPE; LAMOTRIGINE; SOMATOSTATIN; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULINOMA; NOCTURNAL SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS ISLET CELL TUMOR; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ONSET AGE; PANCREAS TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULINOMA; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27244444846     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.00253.x     Document Type: Article

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