title: Small bowel infarction associated with pancreatic glucagonoma.
abstract: An 88 year old woman presented comatose, hypothermic and hyperglycaemic. She died soon after admission and at autopsy recent small bowel infarction was found. The superior mesenteric artery was encased in a dense pancreatic mass and there was marked luminal narrowing of the vessel. Histology revealed a pancreatic glucagonoma which had metastasized to colonic submucosa and serosa. Glucagonoma is a rare tumour and this presentation of small bowel infarction associated with pancreatic glucagonoma would appear to be a unique event.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Leeds, U.K.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Earl
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Abbott
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003111:Colonic Polyps / Q000556:secondary; D005260:Female; D005935:Glucagonoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000209:etiology*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000098:blood supply*; D008638:Mesenteric Arteries; D008641:Mesenteric Vascular Occlusion / Q000209:etiology; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*