Gastrointestinal stromal tumour and hypoglycemia in a Fjord pony: Case report

BACKGROUND: Neoplasia may cause hypoglycemia in different species including the horse, but hypoglycemia has not previously been reported in the horse associated with gastrointestinal stromal tumours. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of a gastrointestinal stromal tumour in a Fjord pony with severe recurrent...

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Autores principales: Haga, Henning A, Ytrehus, Bjørnar, Rudshaug, Inger J, Ottesen, Nina
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2397421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18485198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-50-9
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author Haga, Henning A
Ytrehus, Bjørnar
Rudshaug, Inger J
Ottesen, Nina
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Ottesen, Nina
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description BACKGROUND: Neoplasia may cause hypoglycemia in different species including the horse, but hypoglycemia has not previously been reported in the horse associated with gastrointestinal stromal tumours. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of a gastrointestinal stromal tumour in a Fjord pony with severe recurrent hypoglycemia is presented. The mechanism causing the hypoglycemia was not established. CONCLUSION: This case indicates that a gastrointestinal stromal tumour may cause hypoglycemia also in the horse.
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spelling pubmed-23974212008-05-29 Gastrointestinal stromal tumour and hypoglycemia in a Fjord pony: Case report Haga, Henning A Ytrehus, Bjørnar Rudshaug, Inger J Ottesen, Nina Acta Vet Scand Case Report BACKGROUND: Neoplasia may cause hypoglycemia in different species including the horse, but hypoglycemia has not previously been reported in the horse associated with gastrointestinal stromal tumours. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of a gastrointestinal stromal tumour in a Fjord pony with severe recurrent hypoglycemia is presented. The mechanism causing the hypoglycemia was not established. CONCLUSION: This case indicates that a gastrointestinal stromal tumour may cause hypoglycemia also in the horse. BioMed Central 2008-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2397421/ /pubmed/18485198 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-50-9 Text en Copyright © 2008 Haga et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Haga, Henning A
Ytrehus, Bjørnar
Rudshaug, Inger J
Ottesen, Nina
Gastrointestinal stromal tumour and hypoglycemia in a Fjord pony: Case report
title Gastrointestinal stromal tumour and hypoglycemia in a Fjord pony: Case report
title_full Gastrointestinal stromal tumour and hypoglycemia in a Fjord pony: Case report
title_fullStr Gastrointestinal stromal tumour and hypoglycemia in a Fjord pony: Case report
title_full_unstemmed Gastrointestinal stromal tumour and hypoglycemia in a Fjord pony: Case report
title_short Gastrointestinal stromal tumour and hypoglycemia in a Fjord pony: Case report
title_sort gastrointestinal stromal tumour and hypoglycemia in a fjord pony: case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2397421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18485198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-50-9
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