REVERSIBLE DEMENTIA DUE TO MACROPROLACTINOMA - CASE-REPORT

Authors
BRISMAN MH FETELL MR POST KD
Citation
Mh. Brisman et al., REVERSIBLE DEMENTIA DUE TO MACROPROLACTINOMA - CASE-REPORT, Journal of neurosurgery, 79(1), 1993, pp. 135-137
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences,Surgery
Journal title
Journal of neurosurgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00223085
Volume
79
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
135 - 137
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3085(1993)79:1<135:RDDTM->2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Subfrontal tumors are an infrequent cause of dementia. Most of those t hat do cause dementia are meningiomas, and the symptoms may recede whe n the tumor is resected. A patient with a huge prolactinoma who came t o medical attention because of dementia is described. The tumor shrank dramatically after bromocriptine therapy and the patient's mental sta tus returned to normal.