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AUTHOR
Ying Fu
Case Report: Insulinoma Presenting as Excessive Daytime Somnolence
Currently, undiagnosed insulinomas remain a difficult clinical dilemma because its symptoms in most cases can easily be misdiagnosed as other diseases. In this article, we present the case of a 14-year-old girl who presented to our hospital with recurrent episodes of excessive daytime sleepiness and abnormal behavior during sleep that had been going on for 3 months. Insulinoma is a rare neuroendocrine tumor that causes excessive release of insulin, resulting in episodes of hypoglycemia. It usually manifests as autonomic sympathetic symptoms. These symptoms resolved rapidly with the administration of glucose. After successful removal of the tumor, daytime sleepiness and abnormal nighttime be…
Time-resolved FDTD and experimental FTIR study of gold micropatch arrays for wavelength-selective mid-infrared optical coupling
The work was partially supported by Sweden's innovation agency Vinnova (Large area CVD graphene-based sensors/IR-photodetectors 2020-00797) and EU CAMART2 project (European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TeamingPhase2 under grant agreement No.739508). TY acknowledges European Regional Development Fund Project No. 1.1.1.2/VIAA/4/20/740.