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. 1964 Aug;5(4):359–362. doi: 10.1136/gut.5.4.359

Watery diarrhoea and an islet cell tumour

W Hindle, D J McBrien, B Creamer
PMCID: PMC1413454  PMID: 14209921

Abstract

It is suggested that there are two hormonal syndromes associated with noninsulin-secreting islet cell tumours and this case is an example of the non-gastrin-secreting type with watery diarrhoea and hypokalaemia. The patient had histamine-fast achlorhydria and a normal gastric biopsy and no gastrin was recovered from the tumour tissue. The watery diarrhoea was isosmotic with plasma and was increased by an intravenous saline load. There was a dramatic response to steroids.

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