Lethal somatostatin analog-induced acute necrotizing pancreatitis in a patient with hormone-refractory prostate cancer

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 423-425

  Battaglia, Michele ^a,b   Ditonno, Pasquale ^a   Palazzo, Silvano ^a   Bettocchi, Carlo ^a   Garofalo, Lucio ^a   Selvaggi, Francesco Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Hormone refractory prostate cancer; Lanreotide; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPEPTIN; BICALUTAMIDE; GONADORELIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MITOXANTRONE; PREDNISONE; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LETHALITY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 33750305595     PISSN: 00365599     EISSN: 16512065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365590500342190     Document Type: Article

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