[Malignant insulinoma in an 84-year-old woman].
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 admitted because of lost of consciouness and sweating. The patient suffers pancreatic tumour 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.
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Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Virgen de la Luz. Cuenca.
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007340:Insulinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy