Somatostatin Treatment for Ectopic ACTH Syndrome due to Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: Review of the Literature

Figure 1

Abdominal CT and MRI images before (a and c) and after 7 cycles of octreotide LAR therapy (b and d) (case 1). (a) The abdominal CT image demonstrated a solid nodule in the body-tail junction of the pancreas (dotted arrow). (b) The abdominal MRI demonstrated multiple blood-rich nodules in the liver (arrow). (c) The abdominal CT image demonstrated that the pancreatic solid nodule was unclear after 7 cycles of octreotide LAR therapy (dotted arrow). (d) The abdominal MRI demonstrated that the sizes and numbers of hepatic metastatic nodules remained stable (arrow). CT: computed tomography. MRI: magnetic resonance imaging.

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