An Unusual Cause of Coma

This case report is an unusual presentation of fibroid uterus as coma. The patient developed a recurrent hypoglycemia possibly secondary to the insulin-like growth factor secreted from the fibroid. The hypoglycemic symptoms disappeared on removal of the fibroid. The histopathological examination rev...

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Autores principales: Ovallath, Sujith, Raj, R. S., Rahman, Abdu, Girija, A. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3465973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056056
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/982198
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author Ovallath, Sujith
Raj, R. S.
Rahman, Abdu
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description This case report is an unusual presentation of fibroid uterus as coma. The patient developed a recurrent hypoglycemia possibly secondary to the insulin-like growth factor secreted from the fibroid. The hypoglycemic symptoms disappeared on removal of the fibroid. The histopathological examination revealed no evidence of malignancy.
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spelling pubmed-34659732012-10-10 An Unusual Cause of Coma Ovallath, Sujith Raj, R. S. Rahman, Abdu Girija, A. S. Case Rep Med Case Report This case report is an unusual presentation of fibroid uterus as coma. The patient developed a recurrent hypoglycemia possibly secondary to the insulin-like growth factor secreted from the fibroid. The hypoglycemic symptoms disappeared on removal of the fibroid. The histopathological examination revealed no evidence of malignancy. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3465973/ /pubmed/23056056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/982198 Text en Copyright © 2012 Sujith Ovallath et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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