ea0014p155 | (1) | ECE2007
Mariniello Barbara
, Cervato Sara
, Opocher Giuseppe
, Albiger Nora
, Occhi Gianluca
, Scaroni Carla
, Mantero Franco
Adrenocortical carcinoma (AC) is a rare neoplasm with poor prognosis. Medical treatment of AC is actually based on the use of opDDD (mitotane) with or without traditional chemotherapeutic agents. Only very few information are available about the effectiveness of somatostatin analogs in AC. In human adrenal gland the expression of all five somatostatin receptor (SSTR) subtypes was previously demonstrated. A differential expression was shown in adrenal adenomas and carcino...