Hypoglycemia Due to Nonpancreatic Mesodermal Tumors

Hypoglycemia in Tumors Outside the Pancreas with a Case Report

A patient with adenocarcinoma of the stomach and recurrent hypoglycemia is presented. The fasting blood sugar ranged from lOm/100,ml to 35mg/100 and the serum insuline levels ranged from 24 miU/ml to  42 miu/ml. The counterregulatory hormones(growth hormone, cortisol, adrenocorticotropin hormone) levels were within normal limits. No significant hepatic involvement was observed in isotopic live...

Diabetes and hypoglycemia due to insulin antibodies.

A patient with "autoimmune diabetes" with reactive hypoglycemia due to anti-insulin antibodies is described. The pathophysiology of the impaired carbohydrate tolerance and reactive hypoglycemia is illustrated by measurements of C-peptide, and free and antibody-bound insulin. Detailed analysis of her antibodies did not provide any evidence in favor of exogenous insulin immunization. Nevertheless...

Hypoglycemia and Beta Cell Tumors

Severe hypoglycemia due to poorly differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hypoglycemia is a well documented paraneoplastic syndrome of hepatoma. Hypoglycemia as sole presentation is very rare. We report a case of poorly differentiated hepatoma with multiple lung metastases presenting with recurrent hypoglycemic seizures as the only manifestation four months before the diagnosis of the tumour.

Clinicopathologic features of ovarian mixed mesodermal tumors and carcinosarcomas.

Over a 27-year period there were 15 patients treated at the University of Michigan Medical center for carcinosarcomas or mixed mesodermal tumors of the ovary. Overall median survival was 11 months. Median survival was 4 months in patients with carcinosarcomas and 13 months in patients with mixed mesodermal tumors (P = 0.066). Patients with a chondrosarcomatous element had a significantly longer...