ea0019p177 | Endocrine tumours and neoplasia | SFEBES2009
Kennedy A
, Piya M
, Stevens M
, Taheri S
Neuroendocrine tumours are slow growing and could be mistaken for other more malignant tumours with poorer prognosis. Their secretory profile may alter with time. The importance of awareness of these tumours and their clinical behaviour is illustrated by the case of a 78-year-old woman who presented with recurrent fasting hypoglycaemia.The patient had been diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma a year previously on the basis of radiographic ...