Abstract

VAL, E.; SAIZ, F.; IRIARTE, A.  and  RACIONERO, M.. A 84 years old woman with a malignant insulinoma. An. Med. Interna (Madrid) [online]. 2003, vol.20, n.1, pp.42-44. ISSN 0212-7199.

The malignant insulinoma is a very strange disorder (6% of the diagnosed insulinoma whose incidence is one to eight cases records in a million inhabitant per year) specially in people under 40 years or over 70 years old. We report the case of a woman, aged 84, who was admited because of lost of conciouness and sweating. The patient suffers pancreatic tomour that products insuline with liver metastasis. She shows a good response when treated with diazoxide. We also revise her clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic features in this disease.

Keywords : Hypoglycemia; Malignant insulinoma; Diazoxide.

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