Table 2.

Presurgical medication and somatostatin receptor scintigraphy.

	Overall	Male	Female	p-value
Preoperative SSA	56/65	18/22	39/43	0.427
Short-term SSA	30	6	25	0.054
Long-term SSA	26	12	14
No use of SSA	9	5	4
Medication time (short-term)/weeks (n = 29)	1.4 (1.0, 2.0)	1.35 (0.55, 2.23)	1.4 (1.0, 2.0)	0.854
Medication time (long-term)/weeks (n = 26)	12.0 (8.0, 14.13)	12.0 (5.75, 13.13)	12.0 (11.0, 16.0)	0.462
Time for hormonal control (short-term)/days (n = 22)	2.5 (2.0, 5.25)	2.0 (1.0, 4.0)	3.0 (2.0, 6.0)	0.249
Time for hormonal control (long-term)/weeks (n = 16)	4.0 (1.0, 8.5)	4.0 (1.0, 10.0)	4.0 (1.0, 4.0)	0.536
Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (+)	40/53	13/17	27/36	1.00