Showing posts with label insulinoma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insulinoma. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Secular Trends in the Presentation and Management of Functioning Insulinoma at the Mayo Clinic, 1987–2007

The cohort of functioning insulinomas consisted of 237 patients (135 women, 57%), aged 50, 17–86 yr (median, range) with a body mass index of 27.8, 17.5–53.8 kg/m2 and 1, 1–14 tumors per patient. Malignant tumors occurred in 10 patients (4%).

You don't have to be fat to suspect insulinoma.

This is an excellent mayo reports of their series.