FUNCTION-TESTS ON THE NEUROENDOCRINE HYPOTHALAMOPITUITARY SYSTEM FOLLOWING ACUTE MIDBRAIN SYNDROME, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO COMPUTERTOMOGRAPHICAL AND MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING RESULTS

Citation
J. Lenzen et al., FUNCTION-TESTS ON THE NEUROENDOCRINE HYPOTHALAMOPITUITARY SYSTEM FOLLOWING ACUTE MIDBRAIN SYNDROME, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO COMPUTERTOMOGRAPHICAL AND MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING RESULTS, Neurosurgical review, 16(3), 1993, pp. 183-187
Citations number
25
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences,Surgery
Journal title
ISSN journal
0344-5607
Volume
16
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
183 - 187
Database
ISI
SICI code
0344-5607(1993)16:3<183:FOTNHS>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Seventeen patients underwent a neuroendocrinological function test at a mean 6.3 years following a severe craniocerebral trauma (CCT) accomp anied by midbrain syndrome. An insulin hypoglycaemia test (IHT) and th e combined pituitary anterior lobe test (CPALT) were applied. Whereas the IHT as maximum stimulator of the hypothalamo-pituitary system (HPS ) showed an adaequate reserve capacity, the CPALT yielded a partial li mitation of the secretion dynamic in the somatotropic, adrenocorticotr opic axis as well as a dysfunction in the FSH secretion. Neuroradiolog ical tests could not establish substantial injury in the regio hypotha lamica in any patient.