Watery diarrhoea and an islet cell tumour
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- 1 August 1964
- Vol. 5 (4) , 359-362
- https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.5.4.359
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.Keywords
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