Abstract
VIPoma is a pancreatic endocrine tumor, which ectopically secretes the vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), which causes watery diarrhea and hypokalemia that causes WDHA syndrome (Watery Diarrhea, Hypokalemia, Achlorhydria), also known as “pancreatic cholera” or "Verner-Morrison syndrome". A 38-year-old patient, admitted to the emergency department for diarrhea made from 12 to 20 watery stools / day and a significant alteration of the general condition, evolving for a month, with a heterogeneous tissue and cystic mass with calcification in the flank left, measuring 12 cm objective on ultrasound and computed tomography. The therapeutic gesture consisted of a monobloc resection of the tumor and the inferior border of the body of the pancreas. The histological study concluded with a well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor G1.
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