Somatostatinomas are a tumor of the delta cells of the endocrine pancreas that produces somatostatin. Increased levels of somatostatin inhibit pancreatic hormones and gastrointestinal hormones. Thus, somatostatinomas are associated with mild diabetes mellitus (due to inhibition of insulin release), steatorrhoea and gallstones (due to inhibition of cholecystokinin release), and achlorhydria (due to inhibition of gastrin release). Somatostatinomas are commonly found in the head of pancreas. Only ten percent of somatostatinomas are functional tumours [9], and 60–70% of tumours are malignant. Nearly two-thirds of patients with malignant somatostatinomas will present with metastatic disease.
Somatostatinomas are a tumor of the delta cells of the endocrine pancreas that produces somatostatin. Increased levels of somatostatin inhibit pancreatic...
hypokalemia, and achlorhydria (WDHA or pancreatic cholera syndrome) somatostatinoma: these rare tumors are associated with elevated blood glucose levels...
in the central nervous system Peritoneal and Pleural Mesothelioma Somatostatinoma (pancreas) Prolactinoma of the pituitary Glucagonoma Micropapillary...
down the digestive process. A tumor of the delta cells is called a "somatostatinoma". When a person is infected with H. pylori the lower region of the...
cell carcinoma", which is subdivided into gastrinoma, glucagonoma, somatostatinoma, and VIPoma. See: 2014 MeSH tree at "Pancreatic Neoplasms [C04.588...
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