Hypoglycemia caused by co-secretion of insulin from lung tumor and cardia cancer: first case report
ABSTRACT CONTEXT: Non-islet-cell-tumor-induced hypoglycemia (NICTH) is caused on rare occasions by secretion of insulin from tumor cells that are reported to have a single tissue origin. CASE REPORT: A 67-year-old male patient had cardia adenocarcinoma and concomitant lung adenocarcinoma with ex...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Associação Paulista de Medicina
2017-11-01
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| Series: | São Paulo Medical Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802017005017103&lng=en&tlng=en |