[Secreting Langerhans adenoma. Difficulties of preoperative lesional diagnosis].
We report the case of a 11-year-old boy suffering from crises of severe hypoglycaemia with high insulin levels. At operation we found a 13 mm adenoma in the head of the pancreas that was enucleated with immediate cure of symptoms. Neither ultrasonography nor CT-scanner (in its conventional and "dynamic" modalities) could help in locating preoperatively the tumor which was nevertheless visible on coeliac axis selective arteriography. The contribution of these new, less invasive, procedures to the diagnosis of pancreatic nodules in children remains to be determined.
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Universidad del Paĭs Vasco, Hospital Materno-Infantil NaSa de Aranzazu, Service de Chirurgie Pédiatrique, San Sebastián, Espagne.
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D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D007516:Adenoma, Islet Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D000792:Angiography; D002445:Celiac Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
Adénome Langerhansien sécrétant. Les difficultés du diagnostic lésionnel préopératoire.