Sircus W, Brunt PW, Walker RJ, Small WP, Falconer CW, Thomson CG. Two cases of "pancreatic cholera" with features of peptide-secreting adenomatosis of the pancreas.
Gut 1970;
11:197-205. [PMID:
4316433 PMCID:
PMC1411440 DOI:
10.1136/gut.11.3.197]
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Abstract
The clinical data are presented of two women with profound metabolic upset from exceptional water and electrolyte losses in diarrhoea. One had an islet-cell adenoma of the pancreas and the other abnormal islets. Gastric and pancreatic function were abnormal in both, consistent with the subsequent demonstration of a pancreatic and choleretic secretagogue in the tumour tissue and pancreatic and gastric secretagogues in circulating blood (Cleator, Thomson, Sircus, and Coombes, 1970).
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