Pancreas: Insulinomanew insights into an old disease

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 300-302

  Dav, Maria Vittoria ^a   Falconi, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULINOMA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; DIET RESTRICTION; NOTE; PANCREAS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

FASTING; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULINOMA; PANCREAS;

EID: 68949135638     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2009.99     Document Type: Short Survey

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