Recent years have seen a number of exciting developments in the evolving and expanding roles of somatostatin and its analogue, octreotide, in endocrinology and eye diseases. This book contains twenty varied and stimulating papers written by well-known experts and covering subjects from acromegaly to Graves' disease. The papers are the proceedings of a symposium held in November 2001 in Berlin in Germany.

Contributors include leading researchers from the USA and Europe, such as: F Casanueva (Santiago de Compostela University, Spain), A Colao (Federico II University of Naples, Italy), M Grant (University of Florida, USA), LJ Hofland (University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and G Krassas (Panagia General Hospital, Greece).

Sections
Acromegaly, Graves' disease, Eye diseases, GH/IGF-I physiology: the development of a new somatostatin analogue, Primary pharmacotherapy in acromegaly