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Robotic Enucleation of an Intra-Pancreatic Insulinoma in the Pancreatic Head
Published on: January 3, 2020
[Diagnostics and treatment of organic hyperinsulinism--experience in 105 cases]
1III. interní klinika 1. LF UK a VFN, U Nemocnice 1, 128 08 Praha 2. jan.skrha@lf1.cuni.cz
Background:
Organic hyperinsulinism causes hypoglycaemia manifesting mainly in the fasting state. We summarize our experience with diagnosis and treatment of 105 patients with organic hyperinsulinism.
Methods And Results:
The diagnosis was confirmed in all patients by spontaneous hypoglycemia and neuroglycopenic symptoms, both developed during fasting test. Endoscopic ultrasonography was the most reliable method for the insulinoma localization (77% of insulinomas confirmed by surgery in the same location within the pancreas), less positive results were obtained by digital subtraction angiography (29%) and still less was found by computed tomography (18%). The localization remains unclear in about 20-25% of insulinomas despite of combined different exploring techniques. Surgical removal of insulinoma by enucleation is the best way of treatment, in some cases laparoscopic removal is a method of choice. From total number of 95 surgically treated patients the successful removal of insulinoma was performed in 84 patients (88%) and another 3 had histopathology diagnosis of micronodular polyadenomatosis.
Conclusions:
Insulinoma was not found during surgery and subsequent thorough histopathology investigation of the whole resecate in 8 patients which have to be treated like other non-surgically treated patients by diazoxide together with diabetic diet.
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