Spontaneous hypoglycaemia and pleural fibroma: role of insulin like growth factors.

N E Moat, J D Teale, R E Lea, A W Matthews

Wessex Regional Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton General Hospital.

Spontaneous hypoglycaemia was the presenting feature of a man with a large subpleural fibroma. Preoperative and postoperative studies support the view that the tumour induced hypoglycaemia was due to the secretion of peptide hormones by the tumour.

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