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Insulinoma in a Young Patient With Focal Seizures: A Case Report of a Neurological Diagnostic Challenge. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT Insulinomas can mimic refractory epilepsy, leading to diagnostic delays. Hypoglycemia should be ruled out in patients with fasting‐associated focal seizures. Timely diagnosis via Whipple's triad and surgical resection offers a complete cure and reversal of neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Valerio López M +5 more
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The insulinoma as a diagnostically and therapeutically challenging neoplasm
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2021 Introduction and purpose An insulinoma is the most common neuroendocrine tumor of a pancreas. This tumor produces insulin, which in excess causes hypoglycemic attacks, provoked by hunger or physical effort.
Paulina Oleksa +5 more
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Jurnal RSMH Palembang, 2020 A B S T R A C TInsulinoma is a functional neuroendocrine neoplasm consisting of insulin-producingcells, which produce insulin uncontrollably, causing a hypoglycemic syndrome. TheHypoglycemic syndrome is a result of hyperinsulinemia which causes adrenergicsymptoms and neuroglycopenia.
de Herder, W.W. +2 more
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Successful Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Alcohol Ablation of Sporadic Insulinoma Using Three-Dimensional Targeting (with Video) [PDF]
Clinical Endoscopy, 2016 Surgical resection is considered the standard of care in the management of symptomatic insulinoma. In this video, we describe the successful management of a symptomatic insulinoma by using linear array endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided ethanol ablation ...
Guru Trikudanathan +2 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 The coexistence of insulinoma and type 2 diabetes is rare and the diagnostic process is often challenging. Continuous glucose monitoring system devices, which are more readily available nowadays, provide a useful tool for the diagnosis and evaluation of ...
Johnny Yau-Cheung Chang +10 more
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Distinctive detection of insulinoma using [18F]FB(ePEG12)12-exendin-4 PET/CT
Scientific Reports, 2021 Specifying the exact localization of insulinoma remains challenging due to the lack of insulinoma-specific imaging methods. Recently, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R)-targeted imaging, especially positron emission tomography (PET), has emerged ...
Takaaki Murakami +11 more
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BMC Cancer, 2019 Background Insulinoma represents hypoglycemia as a predominant symptom; the autonomic symptoms may be resolved by chronically recurrent hypoglycemia resulting in the persistence of non-specific symptoms alone.
Keiichi Torimoto +10 more
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Clinical characteristics of malignant insulinomas and benign insulinomas [PDF]
Jichu yixue yu linchuangObjective To analyze the differences in clinical indicators between malignant insulinoma and benign insulinoma, in order to provide diagnostic and therapeutic insights for the early detection and diagnosis of malignant insulinoma. Methods A retrospective
LIU Yan, YU Jie, LIU Yiwen, PING Fan, ZHANG Huabing, XU Lingling, LI Yuxiu
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Periodic limb movement disorder: A novel presentation of insulinoma
Annals of Movement Disorders, 2018 Hypoglycemia because of insulinoma can mimic many neurological disorders including movement disorders during sleep. We present a 54-year-old woman who presented with features typical of periodic limb movement disorder and on detailed evaluation was found
Deepa Dash +2 more
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Translational Oncology, 2022 Insulinomas are considered rare indolent neuroendocrine neoplasms in human medicine, however when metastases occur no curative treatment is available thus, novel therapies are needed.
Ylenia Capodanno +5 more
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