Islet cell tumor and a syndrome of refractory watery diarrhea and hypokalemia

doi:10.1016/0002-9343(58)90075-5

The American Journal of Medicine

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 1958, Pages 374-380

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Abstract

Two cases are reported of a fatal syndrome of refractory watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, and vacuolar nephropathy in association with non-insulin-secreting islet cell adenomas of the pancreas. Seven cases of a similar nature are reviewed. The therapeutic significance of early diagnosis and treatment of this clinical syndrome is stressed.

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^☆: This investigation was supported (in part) by a research grant A-1375(C1) from the Public Health Service.

¹: From the Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

^†: Markle Scholar in Medical Science.

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Clinical studyIslet cell tumor and a syndrome of refractory watery diarrhea and hypokalemia☆

Abstract

Lancet

Am. J. Med.

Lancet

Am. J. Med.

Primary peptic ulceration of the jejunum associated with islet cell tumors of the pancreas

Ann. Surg.

The ulcerogenic tumor of the pancreas

Surgery

Islet cell adenoma without hypoglycemia causing duodenal obstruction

Surgery

Concomitance of multiple adenomas of the parathyroids and pancreatic islets with tumors of the pituitary: a syndrome with familial incidence

Am. J. M. Sc.

Gastric hypersecretion, peptic ulceration and islet-cell tumor of the pancreas (the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome): report of a case and review of the literature

New England J. Med.

Peptic ulceration of the third part of the duodenum associated with islet cell tumors of the pancreas

Brit. J. Surg.

Carcinoma of islets of Langerhans

Gastroenterology

Death in potassium deficiency. Report of a case including morphologic findings

Circulation

Clinical study
Islet cell tumor and a syndrome of refractory watery diarrhea and hypokalemia☆