Insulinoma

Abstract

Patients with insulinoma (a relatively rare entity – about 10
cases per million inhabitants) are frequently seen in a number of
out-patient clinics of diverse specialities before the diagnosis is
made. Hypoglycaemia symptomatology frequently leads to these
patients being referred for psychiatric evaluation.
This was the case of the patient presented in this article, who
was admitted for the fi rst time to an Internal Medicine ward, after
several years of psychiatric medication.
The authors describe the diagnostic and therapeutic methodology used in this case and make a theoretic revision of this
pathology.