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Title
Treatment of ECL cell carcinoids with octreotide LAR.
Authors
Fykse, V; Sandvik, A K; Qvigstad, G; Falkmer, S E; Syversen, U; Waldum, H L
Abstract
Patients with chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG) and hypergastrinaemia are at risk of developing hyperplasia of the enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells and ECL-cell-derived tumours. The effect of the somatostatin analogue octreotide on ECL cell carcinoids is examined.
Publication
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology, 2004, Vol 39, Issue 7, p621