[Functions of the adrenal cortex in patients with supratentorial brain tumors and their prognostic value for surgical intervention].
PMID 190835 · Zhurnal voprosy neirokhirurgii imeni N. N. Burdenko · 1977
Authors: N I Brodskaia; V E Oliushin; M V Andrianova; E L Nikulenko
Abstract
The functional activity of the adrenal cortex was studied pre- and postoperatively in patients with pituitary adenomas, craiopharyngiomas and supratentorial meningiomas. With the hypothalamus function preserved, the patients developed varying degrees of stress-responses in the postoperative period. Severe morphological injuries to the hypothalamus make the normal response to surgical trauma impossible. With some functional centers preserved, the diencephalo-catabolic syndrome develops. Severe injuries of the diencephalon, with its adaptative function completely lost, result in the development of the diencephalic areactive syndrome.
11-Hydroxycorticosteroids; Adenoma; Adrenal Cortex; Adrenal Glands; Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; Brain Diseases; Brain Neoplasms; Craniopharyngioma; Diencephalon; Female; Humans; Male; Meningioma; Pituitary Neoplasms; Postoperative Complications; Syndrome
Cite
N I Brodskaia; V E Oliushin; M V Andrianova; E L Nikulenko. [Functions of the adrenal cortex in patients with supratentorial brain tumors and their prognostic value for surgical intervention]. Zhurnal voprosy neirokhirurgii imeni N. N. Burdenko (1977). PMID 190835.