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- Title
Vasoactive intestinal peptide releasing tumor which caused to chronic watery diarrhea and hypokalemia.
- Authors
Kanık, Ali; Baran, Maşallah; Çayan, Özlem; Eliaçık, Kayı; Özdemir, Tunç; Helvacı, Mehmet; Çeçen, Emre
- Abstract
Watery diarrhea, hypokalemia and achlorhydria syndrome is a rare cause of chronic secretory diarrhea arising from a vasoactive intestinal peptide releasing tumor. In this article, a 15-month old female patient with watery diarrhea and abdominal distension which lasting four months is presented. In different centers no diagnosis could be made although investigations. The patient was diagnosed with vasoactive intestinal peptide releasing ganglioneuroblastoma localized in the right surrenal gland.
- Subjects
ABDOMEN; ADRENAL glands; DIARRHEA; GLUCAGONOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; PEPTIDE hormones
- Publication
Türk Pediatri Arşivi, 2014, Vol 49, Issue 2, p160
- ISSN
1306-0015
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5152/tpa.2014.1054