Wyke RJ, Hill GL, Axon AT. A review of the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome--with particular reference to a patient treated with cimetidine.
Postgrad Med J 1979;
55:716-20. [PMID:
537959 PMCID:
PMC2425758 DOI:
10.1136/pgmj.55.648.716]
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Abstract
A case of the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, presented with watery diarrhoea, malabsorption and multiple duodenal ulcers. Resection of a gastrinoma from the head of the pancreas was ineffective. Cimetidine, administered for more than 30 months produced an immediate and sustained relief of symptoms with a gain in weight of 19 kg and improvement of the biochemical features of malabsorption. Gastric acid secretion has been markedly inhibited and duodenal ulceration healed.
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