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This report talks about a rare form of muscle cell tumor that is associated with recurrent episodes of low sugars and its related symptoms in an elderly woman. After appropriate diagnosis and surgery, she made complete recovery and has been well since.

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Ruling out rare causes of hypoglycemia in not straightforward cases is important to cure/treat the patient appropriately in time.

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This report talks about a rare form of muscle cell tumor that is associated with recurrent episodes of low sugars and its related symptoms in an elderly woman. After appropriate diagnosis and surgery, she made a complete recovery and has been well since. Ruling out rare causes of recurrent/refractory hypoglycemia in not straightforward cases like this is important to cure/treat the patient appropriately in time.

Turab Mohammed
University of Connecticut

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This page is a summary of: Doege-Potter Syndrome with a Benign Solitary Fibrous Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review, Case Reports in Oncology, March 2021, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000512823.
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