What is it about?
Sometimes, finding the cause of hypoglycemia is so difficult that we should look for the rarest cause. Doege Potter syndrome is one of the rarest cause of hypoglycemia caused due to secretion of insulin like growth factor from tumor cells. In fact its a type of para neoplastic syndrome.
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Why is it important?
These type of case reports help physician to approach the causes of hypoglycemia in systemic way.
Perspectives
This is first case of doege potter syndrome reported from Nepal. There are very few cases reported in the world.
Dr Vivek Pant
Tribhuvan University
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This page is a summary of: Doege–Potter Syndrome, cause of nonislet cell tumor hypoglycemia: the first case report from Nepal, International Medical Case Reports Journal, August 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/imcrj.s142260.
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