Clinical applications of somatostatin analogs.
The somatostatin analog Sandostatin is successfully used in the treatment of metastatic endocrine pancreatic tumors, carcinoids, and acromegaly. In addition, somatostatin receptors are also present on other tumors in man, therefore making it possible to demonstrate these tumors by the administration of (123)I-coupled to a somatostatin analog.
Lamberts
S W
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Department of Medicine, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Krenning
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Klijn
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Reubi
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