Endocrine Abstracts

Analogues of somatostatin are widely used in management of neuroendocrine tumors. The “classic” indications for this treatment are: acromegaly and NETs of midgut to diminish symptoms caused by hormonal overproduction and slow down the tumors’ growth. However we consider the use of this medication also in the other cases in which we confirm the presence of somatostatin receptors in tumor by somatostatin receptor scintigraphy.We would like t...

Background: Gastrinoma is a functional neuroendocrine neoplasm (NEN) most commonly located in the duodenum (70%) and the pancreas (25%). The initial confirmation of NEN’s secretion profile does not exclude the possibility of a new hormonal activity of the tumor occurring in the course of the disease. Ectopic Cushing syndrome has been described in up to 5% of gastrinoma cases and hypercortisolemia may worsen the patient’s prognosis.Case presenta...