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ea0013p73 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2007

Recurrent hypoglycaemia caused by metastatic insulinoma in a patient with Type 2 diabetes

Sandeep Thekkepat , Hughes Kate , Adamson Karen , Patrick Alan , Frier Brian

Insulinoma is a rare tumour, but is the commonest cause of hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia in adults. It is characterised by symptomatic hypoglycaemia with inappropriately elevated plasma insulin and C-peptide levels. 10% of insulinomas are malignant. The coexistence of insulinoma with diabetes mellitus is extremely rare with only 20 previously reported cases. This can therefore pose a diagnostic challenge.An 83 year old man, who developed Type 2 diabete...