[Double localization of pancreatic insulinoma. Diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties]

Chirurgia (Bucur). 2005 Sep-Oct;100(5):489-94.
[Article in Romanian]

Abstract

Insulinomas are the most common cause of hypoglycemia resulting from endogenous hyperinsulinism. Because most of insulinomas are less than 2 cm in size and rarely they not may be visible by CT scan or transabdominal ultrasonography. Intraoperative ultrasonography may be a solution. Although as surgical method is preferred enucleation because operative time is shorter and easier and the low frequency postoperative complications, pancreaticoduodenectomy Whipple is indicated in selected cases. We report a case of double insulinoma located in the head of the pancreas in which the diagnosis and surgical treatment presented difficulties which determined a particular clinical evolution.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Humans
  • Insulinoma / diagnosis*
  • Insulinoma / surgery*
  • Intraoperative Care
  • Middle Aged
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Pancreaticoduodenectomy
  • Reoperation
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ultrasonography, Interventional