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From: Extraordinarily long-inactive solitary fibrous tumor transformed to produce big insulin-like growth factor-2, leading to hypoglycemia and rapid liposarcoma growth: a case report

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18F-FDG PET-CT scans of the tumors (a-b) and western immunoblot analysis with anti-IGF-2 antibody (c). 18F-FDG PET-CT scans obtained at the Th12 vertebral level (a) and at the L3 vertebral level (b) 15 months after the onset of the hypoglycemic episodes. Western immunoblot analysis with anti-IGF-2 antibody in the serum of a healthy subject (c, 1st lane), in the patient’s serum 18 months after the onset of hypoglycemic episodes (c, 2nd lane) and in the autopsy tumor samples (30 μg of total protein) of the preexisting SFT (c, 3rd lane) and the peri-renal tumor (c, 4th lane). The uncropped immunoblot image and details of the procedure including the information on anti-IGF-2 antibody are presented in Additional files 1 and 2, respectively. FDG: Fluorodeoxyglucose, PET-CT: positron emission tomography-computed tomography, IGF: insulin-like growth factor, SFT: solitary fibrous tumor

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BMC Endocrine Disorders

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