Hepatitis C virus infection and type 2 diabetes mellitus in Mexican patients.

Objective: to measure the frequency of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in patients with confirmed HCV infection.

Methods: we studied 125 adults reactive to anti-HCV antibodies (62.4 % women, mean age 46.

Obstructing gangliocytic paraganglioma in the third portion of the duodenum.

Gangliocytic paragangliomas are infrequent tumors almost exclusively found in the second portion of the duodenum. An unusual case of a gangliocytic paraganglioma in the third portion of the duodenum with obstructive symptoms is herein reported. A 16-year-old male patient presented with epigastric pain, postprandial plenitude and reflux.