4th April 2024

A 43-year-old female presents to the emergency department with watery diarrhoea and electrolyte disturbance.

A 43-year-old female presents to the emergency department with watery diarrhoea and electrolyte disturbance. She had recently been diagnosed with a ‘hormone related tumour’ but cannot remember the name. All she knows is that it is not a gastrinoma. Stool cultures are negative. Given the likely diagnosis, where is the normal source of this hormone released?

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