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Estrogen Levels in Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid

Per Soelberg Sørensen, MD; Flemming Gjerris, MD, PhD; Birgit Svenstrup, MSc

Arch Neurol. 1986;43(9):902-906.

Abstract
• In 15 patients fulfilling conventional diagnostic criteria for pseudotumor cerebri, anterior and posterior pituitary functions were examined. Eight of 12 female patients with pseudotumor were grossly overweight. Except for a subnormal response of growth hormone level to insulin-induced hypoglycemia in four patients, no major disturbances were found in pituitary, gonadal, thyroid, or adrenal functions. Vasopressin concentration in the cerebrospinal fluid was increased in patients with pseudotumor, whereas cerebrospinal fluid concentration of estrogens was below detection limit.

Author Affiliations
From the University Clinic of Neurology (Dr Soelberg Sørensen) and Neurosurgery (Dr Gjerris), Rigshospitalet, and the Hormone Department, Statens Seruminstitut (Ms Svenstrup), Copenhagen.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 26, 1985.

Reprint requests to University Clinic of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark (Dr Soelberg Sørensen).

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