Long-Term Treatment of a VIPoma With Somatostatin Analogue Resulting in Remission of Symptoms and Possible Shrinkage of Metastases

Gastroenterology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 185-187

  Kraenzlin, M E ^a   Ch'ng, J L C ^a   Wood, S M ^a   Carr, D H ^a   Bloom, S R ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; SOMATOSTATIN; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOZOCIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

APUDOMA; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG THERAPY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER METASTASIS; PANCREAS TUMOR; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY; VIPOMA;

ADENOMA, ISLET CELL; ADULT; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DRUG EVALUATION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; OCTREOTIDE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SOMATOSTATIN; TIME FACTORS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE; VIPOMA;

EID: 0021924172     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5085(85)80153-0     Document Type: Article

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