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Molecular and immunohistochemical analyses of the focal form of congenital hyperinsulinism.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc - 1 Jan 2006
Suchi Mariko, MacMullen Courtney M, Thornton Paul S, Adzick N Scott, Ganguly Arupa, Ruchelli Eduardo D, Stanley Charles A
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Congenital hyperinsulinism is a rare pancreatic endocrine cell disorder that has been categorized histologically into diffuse and focal forms. In focal hyperinsulinism, the pancreas contains a focus of endocrine cell adenomatous hyperplasia, and the patients have been reported to possess paternally inherited mutations of the ABCC8 and KCNJ11 genes, which encode subunits of an ATP-sensitive potassium channel...
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