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Tumor de células de los islotes pancreáticos - Overview

Nombres alternativos

Tumor de células de los islotes o tumor de células insulares; Tumor de los islotes de Langerhans; Tumores neuroendocrinos

Definición:

Es un raro tumor del páncreas que comienza a partir de un tipo de células llamadas células de los islotes o células insulares.

Causas, incidencia y factores de riesgo:

En el páncreas normal, unas células llamadas células de los islotes producen hormonas que regulan una diversidad de funciones corporales, como el nivel de azúcar en la sangre y la producción de ácido estomacal.

Los tumores que se originan a partir de las células de los islotes del páncreas también pueden producir una diversidad de hormonas, aunque algunos no lo hacen.

Aunque las células de los islotes producen muchas hormonas diferentes, la mayoría de los tumores libera únicamente una hormona que lleva a síntomas específicos. Los tumores de las células de los islotes pancreáticos pueden ser no cancerosos (benignos) o cancerosos (malignos).

Los tumores de las células de los islotes comprenden:

Un factor de riesgo para el desarrollo de estos tumores es tener antecedentes familiares de neoplasia endocrina múltiple Tipo I (NEM I).

  • Reviewed last on: 3/2/2010
  • David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; Yi-Bin Chen, MD, Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

Referencias

National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: Neuroendocrine Tumors. National Comprehensive Cancer Network; 2009. Version 2.2009.

Jensen RT. Pancreatic endocrine tumors. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007: chap 205.

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