Fatal Diabetic Glomerulosclerosis after Total Pancreatectomy

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Abstract
THERE have been infrequent reports of the appearance of vascular lesions in diabetes secondary to gross pancreatic damage or removal. This is a follow-up report of a patient who had total pancreatectomy in 1949 for reticulum-cell sarcoma and who died fourteen years later of diabetic glomerulosclerosis.Case ReportIn October, 1949, total pancreatectomy was performed on a 29-year-old man with reticulum-cell sarcoma arising in the head of the pancreas and invading the duodenum. (Reference is made to the publication of Feather and Kuhn1 for description of the operative findings and the pathology of the resected specimen.) Although several of the . . .