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This article is part of the supplement: 35te Tagung der Pathologen am Oberrhein/35th Meeting of Pathologists of the Upper Rhine Region (PATOR) .

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Life-threatening endocrinologic paraneoplasia in an 83-year-old patient with solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: a case report

U Oehler

Institut für Pathologie, Hegau-Bodensee-Hochrheinkliniken, 78207 Singen, Germany

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from 35te Tagung der Pathologen am Oberrhein/35th Meeting of Pathologists of the Upper Rhine Region (PATOR)
The Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany. 1 July 2006

Diagnostic Pathology 2007, 2(Suppl 1):S13doi:10.1186/1746-1596-2-S1-S13

Published: 14 March 2007

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An 83-year-old male patient with progressive alterations in behavior and aggressiveness was suspected of psychiatric disease. Loss of conscience led to hospital admission. The blood glucose was reduced to 11 g/100 ml and insulinoma could be clinically excluded.


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