Vasoactive intestinal peptide releasing tumor which caused to chronic watery diarrhea and hypokalemia

Kanik A., Baran M., Cayan O., Eliacik K., Ozdemir T., Helvaci M., ...More

TURK PEDIATRI ARSIVI-TURKISH ARCHIVES OF PEDIATRICS, vol.49, no.2, pp.160-162, 2014 (ESCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 49 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2014
  • Doi Number: 10.5152/tpa.2014.1054
  • Journal Name: TURK PEDIATRI ARSIVI-TURKISH ARCHIVES OF PEDIATRICS
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.160-162
  • Keywords: Child, ganglioneuroblastoma, secretory diarrhea, vasoactive intestinal peptide
  • Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Watery diarrhea, hypokalemia and achlorhydria syndrome is a rare cause of chronic secretory diarrhea arising from a vasoactive intestinal peptide releasing tumor. In this article, a 15-month old female patient with watery diarrhea and abdominal distension which lasting four months is presented. In different centers no diagnosis could be made although investigations. The patient was diagnosed with vasoactive intestinal peptide releasing ganglioneuroblastoma localized in the right surrenal gland.