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Italian guidelines for the management of adult individuals with overweight and obesity and metabolic comorbidities that are resistant to behavioral treatment
This guideline (GL) is aimed at providing a clinical practice reference for the management of adult patients with overweight or obesity associated with metabolic complications who are resistant to lifestyle mo...
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Open AccessEfficacy of liraglutide 3.0 mg treatment on weight loss in patients with weight regain after bariatric surgery
Bariatric surgery, as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), laparoscopic gastric banding (LGB), and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), is considered the gold standard treatment to achieve long-term weight loss ...
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Use of radioguided surgery with [111In]-pentetreotide in the management of an ACTH-secreting bronchial carcinoid causing ectopic Cushing’s syndrome
Intraoperative [111In]-pentetreotide scintigraphy with a hand-held gamma detector probe has recently been proposed to increase the intraoperative detection rate of small neuroendocrine tumors and their metastases...
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The natural history of incidentally discovered adrenocortical adenomas: A retrospective evaluation
Adrenal adenoma is the most frequent lesion among adrenal incidentalomas. The present retrospective study was undertaken to investigate medium-term evolution of supposed or ascertained adrenocortical adenomas ...
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Bilateral and simultaneous venous sampling of inferior petrosal sinuses for ACTH and PRL determination: Preoperative localization of ACTH-secreting microadenomas
We report our experience on venous sampling of the inferior petrosal sinuses for basal and CRH-stimulated ACTH and PRL gradients in 8 patients with surgically proven Cushing’s disease who had normal preoperati...
