Glucagonoma

Glucagonoma is a rare, functioning type of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PNET; see this term) that hypersecretes glucagon, leading to a syndrome comprised of necrolytic migratory erythema, diabetes mellitus, anemia, weight loss, mucosal abnormalities, thromboembolism, gastrointestinal and neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Hyperinsulinemia

An increased concentration of insulin in the blood.


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The insidious development of symptomatic secondary hormone syndromes in patients with malignant endocrine tumors.
Lind SE, Weitzman SA.
Am J Med Sci. 1985;290(3):107-10.
The second, a man with malignant glucagonoma, is the first with this disease to have developed symptomatic hyperinsulinemia as a late complication.