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Extraordinarily long-inactive solitary fibrous tumor transformed to produce big insulin-like growth factor-2, leading to hypoglycemia and rapid liposarcoma growth: a case report

BACKGROUND: A high-molecular-weight form of insulin-like growth factor-2 (IGF-2), known as “big” IGF-2, is occasionally produced by various tumor types, leading to hypoglycemia. Although solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare mesenchymal neoplasm, it has been estimated that 4–6% of SFT patients deve...

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Autores principales: Kaneko, Keizo, Sawada, Shojiro, Satake, Chihiro, Kondo, Keiichi, Izumi, Tomohito, Tanaka, Mamiko, Imai, Junta, Yamada, Tetsuya, Katsushima, Hiroki, Fujishima, Fumiyoshi, Katagiri, Hideki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7526150/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32993631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12902-020-00624-2