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ASSOCIATED WITH HYPERTROPHY AND HYPERPLASIA OF THE ISLANDS OF LANGERHANS

HENRY RASCOFF, M.D.; JACOB S. BEILLY, M.D.; MENDEL JACOBI, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1938;55(2):330-339.

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There are few reports in the literature of hypoglycemia in the new-born due to hyperplasia and hypertrophy of the islands of Langerhans. In 1920 Dubreuil and Andérodias¹ first described these changes in the islands in a fetus of a diabetic mother. Subsequently similar reports have been made by Wiener,² Gray and Feemster,³ Schretter and Nevinny,⁴ Skipper⁵ and Gordon.⁶

REPORT OF A CASE

G., a boy, was born on Oct. 19, 1936, at 1 p. m., with a difficult delivery. His weight at birth was 11 pounds and 2 ounces (5,046 Gm.). The mother had had two previous pregnancies; the first came to term with the birth of a living child, the second ended in a miscarriage after seven months' gestation. During the first trimester of the third pregnancy there was a loss of weight of 18 pounds (8 Kg.), and the patient felt tired . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BROOKLYN

From the Department of Pathology, Beth-El Hospital.

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