Usefulness of hemoglobin A1c and glycated albumin measurements for insulinoma screening: an observational case-control study

Abstract 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. Therefore, it has been estimated that there are many patients in whom the disease...

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Main Authors: Keiichi Torimoto, Yosuke Okada, Yoshiya Tanaka, Atsuko Matsuoka, Yushi Hirota, Wataru Ogawa, Yoshifumi Saisho, Isao Kurihara, Hiroshi Itoh, Shinya Inada, Masafumi Koga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-019-5389-7