[Indications for the use of somatostatin and octreotide in digestive pathology]

The authors report their experience about the use of somatostatin (SST-14) (47 cases) and its analog octreotide (15 cases) in gastrointestinal diseases. On the basis of own clinical data and literature review, at present they think useful SST-14 employ in the upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding and acute pancreatitis. Out of the emergency, they consider favourable the use of octreotide, above all because of the easy subcutaneous administration's route.