Diabetes Mellitus Following Acute Pancreatic Necrosis

Abstract
ACUTE pancreatic necrosis is a rare cause of diabetes mellitus. Detailed clinical and post-mortem studies of a patient who survived such a necrosis for a month are the basis for the following report.Case ReportJ.A., a 38-year-old single Army private was admitted to the hospital on September 10, 1943, for continued treatment of a schizophrenic reaction, paranoid type.Routine physical examinations were within normal limits until November 6, 1950, when prostatic hypertrophy and urinary retention were found.A transurethral resection was done on December 12. When the diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the prostate was made diethylstilbestrol administration was begun. . . .

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