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Severe paraneoplastic hypoglycemia in a patient with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor with an exon 9 mutation: a case report.
BMC cancer - 17 Jan 2007
Escobar Guillermo A, Robinson William A, Nydam Trevor L, Heiple Drew C, Weiss Glen J, Buckley Linda, Gonzalez Rene, McCarter Martin D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Non-islet cell tumor induced hypoglycemia (NICTH) is a very rare phenomenon, but even more so in gastrointestinal stromal tumors. It tends to present in large or metastatic tumors, and can appear at any time in the progression of the disease. We present herein a case of NICTH in a GIST tumor and report an exon 9 mutation associated to it. CASE PRESENTATION: A thirty nine year-old man with a recurrent,...
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