SURGICAL CURE OF HYPERTENSION IN A PATIENT WITH BRAIN-STEM CAPILLARY HEMANGIOBLASTOMA CONTAINING NEUROPEPTIDE-Y

Authors
HEDDERWICK SA BISHOP AE STRONG AJ RITTER JM
Citation
Sa. Hedderwick et al., SURGICAL CURE OF HYPERTENSION IN A PATIENT WITH BRAIN-STEM CAPILLARY HEMANGIOBLASTOMA CONTAINING NEUROPEPTIDE-Y, Postgraduate medical journal, 71(836), 1995, pp. 371-372
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Postgraduate medical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00325473
Volume
71
Issue
836
Year of publication
1995
Pages
371 - 372
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-5473(1995)71:836<371:SCOHIA>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We describe a 29-year-old woman with persistent arterial hypertension which resolved following complete excision of a capillary haemangiobla stoma from within the spinal cord at the cervicomedullary junction. Im munohistochemical staining was positive for neuropeptide Y in capillar y walls and nerves in the tumour. This raises the possibility of an as sociation between neuropeptide Y and the central control of blood pres sure in man.