Malignant insulinoma arising from intrasplenic heterotopic pancreas

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 321-323

  Hernández Cárdenas, Carmen M ^a   Domínguez, Ismael ^a   Campuzano, Manuel ^a   Bezaury, Paulina ^a   Iñiguez Rodríguez, María ^a   Gamboa Domínguez, Armando ^a   Uscanga, Luis F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Insulinoma; Pancreas; Spleen

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; PROINSULIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DIZZINESS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULINOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT INSULINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS SURGERY; SPLEEN CANCER; SPLENECTOMY; CHORISTOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; SPLEEN DISEASE;

CHORISTOMA; HUMANS; INSULINOMA; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 68149165309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15908577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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