Prolonged preoperative treatment of acromegaly with Somatostatin analogs may improve surgical outcome in patients with invasive pituitary macroadenoma (Knosp grades 1–3): a retrospective cohort study conducted at a single center

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigate preoperative somatostatin analogs (SSAs) treatment on the surgical outcome in patients with acromegaly. METHODS: An analysis of 358 patients with acromegaly was conducted. The preoperative medical therapy group (81 patients) received SSA treatment for at l...

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Autores principales: Duan, Lian, Zhu, Huijuan, Xing, Bing, Gu, Feng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5585918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28874187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12902-017-0205-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5585918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28874187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12902-017-0205-3

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