Insulinoma is clinically characterized by fasting hypoglycemia, various neuropsychiatric symptoms, and these caused by secondary to hypoglycemia. Of patients with insulinoma, 80 percent have single benign tumors, 11 percent have multiple benign
tumors,
6 percent have single malignant tumors, and the remainder have multiple malignant tumors or islet hyperplasia according to service's statement.
A 42 year-old male chemical engineer who had insulinoma associated with regional lymph node metastasis has been successfully performed with curative resection and consecutive postoperative therapy with streptozotocin.
He entered to this hospital because of frequent occasion of bizarre behavior and language, transient unconsiousness and syncopal episode, and sweating associated with hypoglycemia especially in night four months prior to addmission in November
1992.
Those symptoms and hypoglycemia were controlled by intravenous glucose injection and/or oral feeding of glucose riched stuffs.
No physical abnormalities wee found except neuropsychiatric symptoms. On admission the fasting blood glucose level was 10 mg/dl, plasma immunoreactive plasma insulin level was 125.23μu/ml, and plasma C-peptide level was 10.24mg/ml, respectively.
Abdominal CT was suggestive of retroperitoneal tumor just behind the pancreas. Selective celiac axis angiography demonstrated hypervascular mass supplied by dorsal pancreatic artery which was compatible with insulinoma. Surgical intervention
including
distal pancreatectomy, as well as splenectomy and parital omental resection were performed successfully. Consecutive postoperative treatment of streptozotocin was done without any side effects.
His condition is very good and enjoyed his life with full activity to date. (J Kor Soc Endocrinol 9:150~155, 1994)
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