Meta-Analysis on the Effects of Octreotide on Tumor Mass in Acromegaly

BACKGROUND: The long-acting somatostatin analogue octreotide is used either as an adjuvant or primary therapy to lower growth hormone (GH) levels in patients with acromegaly and may also induce pituitary tumor shrinkage. OBJECTIVE: We performed a meta-analysis to accurately assess the effect of octr...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Giustina, Andrea, Mazziotti, Gherardo, Torri, Valter, Spinello, Maurizio, Floriani, Irene, Melmed, Shlomo
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3344864/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22574156
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036411
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