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octreotide scans - find what
by glindaandelphaba, Oct 17, 2008 03:03AM
I have learned that Ocreotide scans find tumors that have receptors that bind to Somatostain.
What kind of tumors will it find?
Is there a minimum size tumor the scan can see?
what are the limitations of the scan?
I am specifically interested in whether it finds Growth Hormone secreting pituitary tumors and if it does what does that mean?
What if you had an octreotide, it was reported normal, but you had a 6-8mm tumor found during surgery (cavernous sinus).
would the octreotide miss a tumor that was highly dominat for prolactin?
Thank you.
What kind of tumors will it find?
Is there a minimum size tumor the scan can see?
what are the limitations of the scan?
I am specifically interested in whether it finds Growth Hormone secreting pituitary tumors and if it does what does that mean?
What if you had an octreotide, it was reported normal, but you had a 6-8mm tumor found during surgery (cavernous sinus).
would the octreotide miss a tumor that was highly dominat for prolactin?
Thank you.
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