Zollinger-Ellison sendromu agir peptik ülser hastaligi, gastrik asit hipersekresyonu ve pankreasin non-beta adacik hücre tümörü üçlüsü olarak tanimlanan ve insidansi 100.000 kiside 0,5 olan bir klinik tablodur. Diare olgularin %30’una eslik edebilmekte, %7’de ise tek yakinma olarak görülebilmektedir. Diare yakinmasi ülser semptomlarindan 8 yil önce baslayabilmektedir. Biz de burada 1 yildir diare yakinmasi olan ve degisik tedavilerle diaresi kontrol altina alinamamasi üzerine tarafimiza basvurup Zollinger-Ellison sendromu tanisi konulan bir hastayi, nadir görülen bir olgu olmasi sebebiyle sunmayi amaçladik.
Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is defined as a triad of severe peptic ulcer, gastric acid hypersecretion, and non-beta islet cell tumors of the pancreas. Its incidence is about 0.5 cases per 100,000 per year. Diarrhea accompanies more than one-third of patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome. In up to 7% of patients, diarrhea may be the only clinical manifestation of this syndrome. Diarrhea may precede ulcer symptoms by as long as eight years. We present a case of chronic diarrhea, in whom, despite the prescription of many medications, symptoms persisted for one year, until the patient was finally diagnosed as Zollinger-Ellison syndrome