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- Title
Presurgical octreotide treatment in acromegaly: no improvement of final growth hormone (GH) concentration and pituitary function. A long-term case-control study.
- Authors
Plöckinger, U; Quabbe, H-J
- Abstract
The effect of presurgical long-acting somatostatin analogue (SSA) treatment on operative outcome in acromegaly is as yet uncertain and long-term observations are lacking. We evaluated in an acromegaly case-control study the effect of octreotide pre-treatment on short- and long-term postoperative GH concentrations, pituitary function and glucose tolerance.
- Publication
Acta neurochirurgica, 2005, Vol 147, Issue 5, p485
- ISSN
0001-6268
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00701-005-0511-9