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Digestive System Diseases > Pancreatic Diseases > Pancreatic Neoplasms > Carcinoma, Islet Cell > Glucagonoma
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Digestive System Diseases > Digestive System Neoplasms > Pancreatic Neoplasms > Carcinoma, Islet Cell > Glucagonoma
... > Neoplasms > Neoplasms by Site > Digestive System Neoplasms > Pancreatic Neoplasms > Carcinoma, Islet Cell > Glucagonoma

Preferred term

Glucagonoma  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Adenoma, alpha Cell
  • Adenoma, alpha-Cell
  • Adenomas, alpha-Cell
  • alpha-Cell Adenoma
  • alpha-Cell Adenomas
  • alpha Cell Tumor
  • alpha-Cell Tumor
  • alpha-Cell Tumors
  • Glucagonoma Syndrome
  • Glucagonoma Syndromes
  • Syndrome, Glucagonoma
  • Syndromes, Glucagonoma
  • Tumor, alpha-Cell
  • Tumors, alpha-Cell

Note

  • coordinate IM with PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS (IM); for glucagonoma syndrome, coordinate also with NECROLYTIC MIGRATORY ERYTHEMA

Scope note

  • An almost always malignant GLUCAGON-secreting tumor derived from the PANCREATIC ALPHA CELLS. It is characterized by a distinctive migratory ERYTHEMA; WEIGHT LOSS; STOMATITIS; GLOSSITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; hypoaminoacidemia; and normochromic normocytic ANEMIA.

History note

  • 91(82); was see under ISLET CELL TUMOR 1982-90; was see ISLET CELL TUMOR 1981

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005935

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