Endocrine Abstracts

A case is reported of a man with stage IV grade 2 pancreatic VIPoma. At diagnosis he had several features which may have expedited the diagnosis including refractory diarrhoea containing undigested foodstuffs, alcohol-related flushing, electrolyte abnormalities and intestinal oedema on imaging. Symptom control was challenging. There was no benefit from creon, loperamide or codeine and escalation to both short and long acting somatostatin analogues was futile. Consistent with a...