“…To our knowledge, there are only a few reports of cases who had both SLE and insulinoma simultaneously. 16 In SLE, steroid therapy often masks hypoglycemia which makes a diagnosis of insulinoma in such cases difficult. In fact, we first considered the cause of hypoglycemia to be due to a decrease in steroid dose or a side effect of the trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole combination.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This was a rare case in which insulinoma and SLE were combined. To our knowledge, there are only a few reports of cases who had both SLE and insulinoma simultaneously 16 . In SLE, steroid therapy often masks hypoglycemia which makes a diagnosis of insulinoma in such cases difficult.…”
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“…To our knowledge, there are only a few reports of cases who had both SLE and insulinoma simultaneously. 16 In SLE, steroid therapy often masks hypoglycemia which makes a diagnosis of insulinoma in such cases difficult. In fact, we first considered the cause of hypoglycemia to be due to a decrease in steroid dose or a side effect of the trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole combination.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This was a rare case in which insulinoma and SLE were combined. To our knowledge, there are only a few reports of cases who had both SLE and insulinoma simultaneously 16 . In SLE, steroid therapy often masks hypoglycemia which makes a diagnosis of insulinoma in such cases difficult.…”
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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