TY - JOUR
T1 - CSF Rhinorrhea after Bromocriptine for Prolactinoma
AU - Baskin, David S.
AU - Wilson, Charles B.
PY - 1982/1/21
Y1 - 1982/1/21
N2 - To the Editor: In the issue of June 14, 1979, Aronoff, Daughaday, and Laws proposed that cerebrospinal-fluid rhinorrhea in a patient receiving bromocriptine therapy after incomplete resection of a prolactinoma was due to a fistula that had been occluded by a tumor until bromocriptine caused a retraction of tumor tissue.* We have encountered two cases that appear to support their conjecture. A 35-year-old woman with a serum prolactin level of 76.6 ng per milliliter (normal, 3 to 20 ng per milliliter) underwent transsphenoidal removal of a 6-mm prolaclinoma. Her prolactin level decreased to 40.0 ng per milliliter. Three months.
AB - To the Editor: In the issue of June 14, 1979, Aronoff, Daughaday, and Laws proposed that cerebrospinal-fluid rhinorrhea in a patient receiving bromocriptine therapy after incomplete resection of a prolactinoma was due to a fistula that had been occluded by a tumor until bromocriptine caused a retraction of tumor tissue.* We have encountered two cases that appear to support their conjecture. A 35-year-old woman with a serum prolactin level of 76.6 ng per milliliter (normal, 3 to 20 ng per milliliter) underwent transsphenoidal removal of a 6-mm prolaclinoma. Her prolactin level decreased to 40.0 ng per milliliter. Three months.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198201213060322
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198201213060322
M3 - Letter
C2 - 7054671
AN - SCOPUS:0020488090
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 306
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 3
ER -