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New-onset diabetes as presenting feature of pancreatic carcinoma: a case report
Jure Murgić
; University Department of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Daniela Salopek
; University Department of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Emil Štajduhar
; University Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Ante Bolanča
; University Department of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Zvonko Kusić
; University Department of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Diabetes is often related to pancreatic cancer and sometimes the only symptom of an underlying pancreatic malignancy. We report a case of new-onset diabetes in a 83-year-old male patient that exposed an unknown pancreatic carcinoma. Patient was treated with chemoradiotherapy and diabetes was regulated by glicazide introduction. Taking into account its late recognition and poor prognosis, in a case of sudden new-onset diabetes, pancreatic cancer should be considered.
Keywords
pancreatic cancer, secondary diabetes; primary chemoradiotherapy
Hrčak ID:
280765
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Publication date:
22.11.2007.
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