Letters to the editor
To the Editor:
Referring to the article on the use of somatostatin in patients with pancreatic islet cell tumors in a recent issue of your journal (i.e. "Use of long-acting somatostatin analog SMS 201-995 in patients with pancreatic islet cell tumors"), we wish to report a case of a malignant VIPoma of the pancreas presenting as a paralytic ileus that responded to somatostatin therapy.
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See also:
- Official Web Site: The Di Bella Method;
- Somatostatin in oncology, the overlooked evidences - In vitro, review and in vivo publications;
- Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: clinical records on 17 patients treated with Di Bella's Method;