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Vipoma

A VIPoma is an endocrine tumor, usually originating in the pancreas, which produces a vasoactive intestinal peptide and is believed to cause profound cardiovascular and electrolyte changes with vasodilatory hypotension, watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, and dehydration.

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Persistent diarrhoea and occult vipomas in children - Lesson of the Week - Statistical Data Included
The authors discuss symptoms of diarrhea in young children and the possibility of that being the result of vipoma, a tumor in the pancreas which changes ...
From British Medical Journal, 6/3/00 by M S Murphy
Low nuclear proliferative activity is associated with nonmetastatic islet cell tumors
Context.-Traditional morphologic features of tumor aggression are of limited value in predicting the malignant behavior of endocrine neoplasms. We explored ...
From Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 2/1/03 by Jorda, Merce
A 35-year-old woman with asthma and polycystic lung disease - pulmonary and critical care pearls
(CHEST 2002; 121:256-260) A 35-year-old white woman with a history of asthma since childhood went to her primary-care physician with symptoms of fever, ...
From CHEST, 1/1/02 by Octavian C. Ioachimescu
Pancreatic cancer, endocrine
Definition Endocrine pancreatic cancer is a disease in which cancerous cells originate within the tissues of the pancreas that produce hormones.
From Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, by M.Sc. Elizabeth Pulcini
Novel p53 mutation in a malignant tumor secreting vasoactive intestinal peptide
Objective.-To assess involvement of p53 mutations in development of pancreatic endocrine tumors. Design.-Survey of sporadic pancreatic endocrine tumors.
From Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 2/1/97 by Henry J Lin

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