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Somatostatin analog in managing postgastrectomy duodenal stump leak
1Department of Surgery, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ 07740.
New Jersey Medicine : the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
Somatostatin and its long-acting analog have a host of activities and potential applications in medicine today. Somatostatin is a naturally occurring peptide containing 14 amino acids. The following is one example of the many uses of somatostatin in the surgical patient.