Preliminary clinical observation on high intensity focused ultrasound treatment in spontaneous hypoglycemic insulinoma / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To observe the clinical effect of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU ) in treating spontaneous hy-poglycemic insulinoma .Methods Ten patients with typical repeated spontaneous hypoglycemic insulinoma without predisposing causes were treated by HIFU .The changes of insulin and blood sugar were observed after treatment .Results HIFU could non-in-vasively and directly ablate insulinoma .The insulin level and fasting blood glucose level recovered to the normal levels at postopera-tive 1 week and significantly improved compared with before operation (P<0 .05) .Conclusion HIFU is a non-invasive ,safe and ef-fective method for treating insulinoma .