PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hsu, Chung Y.
AU  - Hogan, Edward L.
AU  - Wingfield, William
AU  - Webb, Jerry G.
AU  - Perot, Phanor L.
AU  - Privitera, Phillip J.
AU  - Talbert, O. Rhett
AU  - Balentine, J. Douglas
TI  - Orthostatic hypotension with brainstem tumors
AID  - 10.1212/WNL.34.9.1137
DP  - 1984 Sep 01
TA  - Neurology
PG  - 1137--1137
VI  - 34
IP  - 9
4099  - http://n.neurology.org/content/34/9/1137.short
4100  - http://n.neurology.org/content/34/9/1137.full
SO  - Neurology1984 Sep 01; 34
AB  - Three patients with brainstem tumors had orthostatic hypotension as the major presenting manifestation. Two patients had primary tumors that involved the dorsal medulla, pons, and rostra1 spinal cord; one was a malignant astrocytoma and the other a hemangioblastoma. The third patient had an oat cell carcinoma of the lung with subependymal spread to the medulla, pons, hypothalamus, and thalamus. Evaluation of baroreceptor function in the patient with the malignant astrocytoma showed a defect in the efferent sympathetic limb of the baroreceptor reflex arc.