Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide-Secreting Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report

A 36-year-old female with chronic watery diarrhea and persistent hypokalemia for more than eight months duration eventually being diagnosed as vasoactive intestinal peptide tumor (VIPoma) clinically and histologically is presented here. The patient achieved complete recovery after starting octreotid...

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Autores principales: Thivacaren, Sritharan, Suganthan, Navaneethakrishnan, Sujanitha, Vathulan, Sutharshan, Vengadasalam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8901089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35273891
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22819
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author Thivacaren, Sritharan
Suganthan, Navaneethakrishnan
Sujanitha, Vathulan
Sutharshan, Vengadasalam
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description A 36-year-old female with chronic watery diarrhea and persistent hypokalemia for more than eight months duration eventually being diagnosed as vasoactive intestinal peptide tumor (VIPoma) clinically and histologically is presented here. The patient achieved complete recovery after starting octreotide, a somatostatin analog. She underwent a distal pancreatectomy along with the removal of the tumor at Teaching Hospital Jaffna for the permanent cure.
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spelling pubmed-89010892022-03-09 Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide-Secreting Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report Thivacaren, Sritharan Suganthan, Navaneethakrishnan Sujanitha, Vathulan Sutharshan, Vengadasalam Cureus Internal Medicine A 36-year-old female with chronic watery diarrhea and persistent hypokalemia for more than eight months duration eventually being diagnosed as vasoactive intestinal peptide tumor (VIPoma) clinically and histologically is presented here. The patient achieved complete recovery after starting octreotide, a somatostatin analog. She underwent a distal pancreatectomy along with the removal of the tumor at Teaching Hospital Jaffna for the permanent cure. Cureus 2022-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8901089/ /pubmed/35273891 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22819 Text en Copyright © 2022, Thivacaren et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Thivacaren, Sritharan
Suganthan, Navaneethakrishnan
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Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide-Secreting Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report
title Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide-Secreting Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report
title_full Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide-Secreting Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report
title_fullStr Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide-Secreting Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide-Secreting Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report
title_short Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide-Secreting Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report
title_sort vasoactive intestinal peptide-secreting pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8901089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35273891
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22819
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