Fibrosarcoma of the lung with extrapulmonary manifestations: case report.
A 50-year-old female presented with a five months history of recurrent attacks of dizziness, sweatiness, tremors and fainting with loss of consciousness. These were found to be due to hypoglycaemic episodes with blood sugars less than 1 mmol/l and were treated as such. A diagnosis of insulinoma was initially considered, but the patient turned out to have fibrosarcoma of the lung, a rare lung tumour. She also had finger and toe clubbing and features of hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000209:etiology*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000209:etiology*