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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A non-invasive way to detect the exact location of very small life-threatening tumors in the pancreas (insulinomas) has been discovered by a team of researchers in Switzerland. This new technique will help surgeons to successfully remove the tumors that can be less than 1 centimeter in diameter.
Professor Emanuel Christ, a clinical researcher in the Department of Endocrinology at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland, presented the study findings at the joint International Congress of Endocrinology/European Congress of Endocrinology on May 7, 2012.
According to Prof. Christ, current conventional imaging procedures make it difficult to identify insulinomas, therefore making it hard for surgeons to remove them. However, the researchers discovered that the insulinomas could be targeted with a radioactively labelled drug, as they had high densities of a particular type of receptor on their cell surfaces.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245198.php
Professor Emanuel Christ, a clinical researcher in the Department of Endocrinology at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland, presented the study findings at the joint International Congress of Endocrinology/European Congress of Endocrinology on May 7, 2012.
According to Prof. Christ, current conventional imaging procedures make it difficult to identify insulinomas, therefore making it hard for surgeons to remove them. However, the researchers discovered that the insulinomas could be targeted with a radioactively labelled drug, as they had high densities of a particular type of receptor on their cell surfaces.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245198.php