VIPoma

VIPoma
Pancreatic vipoma. Electron microscopy of a pancreatic VIPoma. Abundant secretory granules of variable size, shape, and density in a pancreatic tumor with WDHA syndrome. Abundant PP-and a few VIP-immunoreactive cells (inset) were detected by light microscopic immunohistochemistry of the same tumor (X28.000). Image courtesy of Professor Peter Anderson DVM PhD and published with permission © PEIR, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Pathology

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Madhu Sigdel M.B.B.S.[2] Parminder Dhingra, M.D. [3] Homa Najafi, M.D.[4]

Synonyms and keywords: VIPomas; watery diarrhea with hypokalemic alkalosis; WDHA syndrome; watery diarrhea hypokalemia achlorhydria syndrome; pancreatic cholera syndrome; Verner-Morrison syndrome; non-beta pancreatic islet cell tumor; diarrheogenic islet cell tumor; VIP-secreting tumor; vasoactive intestinal polypeptide secreting tumor

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