Severe hypoglycemia and hypokalemia in association with liver metastases of gastric cancer

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 824-828

  Kato, Akihiko ^a   Bando, Etsuro ^a   Shinozaki, Shingo ^a   Yonemura, Yutaka ^a   Aiba, Motohiko ^b   Fukuda, Izumi ^c   Hizuka, Naomi ^c   Kameya, Toru ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Big IGF II; Gastric cancer; Hypokalemia; Liver metastasis; NICTH

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; POTASSIUM; PREDNISOLONE; SOMATOMEDIN B; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GASTRECTOMY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC COMA; HYPOKALEMIA; INSULINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; OCCULT CANCER; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STEROID THERAPY; STOMACH CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 5044228260     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.824     Document Type: Article

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