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Necrolytic migratory erythema (NME), referred to as the glucagonoma syndrome, is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome consisting of the classic triad of diarrhea, diabetes mellitus, and rash associated with serum hyperglucagonemia (1–3). The most common etiology involves the elaboration of glucagons from an islet cell tumor of the pancreas but may rarely follow the metabolic consequences of cirrhosis, pancreatic insufficiency, or celiac disease. There is no ethnic or gender predilection and age of onset is usually in the sixties. NME is associated with type 1 multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome (MEN I) sequence and/or Zollinger-Ellison hypergastrinemia syndrome in a minority of the cases (4–6).
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(2007). Necrolytic Migratory Erythema. In: Deadly Dermatologic Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68858-9_23
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