Endocrine Abstracts

A 92-year-old man presented with a one-month history of episodic aggression, confusion, urinary incontinence and auditory hallucinations. Episodes lasted 30 - 150 minutes, occurred daily and were abruptly self-terminating. Between episodes he was cognitively intact and lived independently. Initial investigations revealed a plasma glucose of 11.0 millimoles per litre, other biochemical tests were normal.He was known to have a pleural mass at the left lung...