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KMID : 0371219920140010218
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Medical Bulletin of the Presbyterian Medical Center
1992 Volume.14 No. 1 p.218 ~ p.221
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Hyperprolactinemia in Impotence
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Abstract
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Hyperprolactinemia has been accepted as a cause of male sexual dysfunction. Pituitary adenomas produce marked elevation of prolactin and invariably are accompanied by hypogonadotrophic hypognoadism. Among 994 consecutive impotent patients
investigted at
Severance Hospital 62 patients had serum levels of prolactin greater than 30ng/ml. Six of 27 patients(22.2%) who had serum level of prolactin greater than 100ng/ml. Irrespective of testosterone were diagnosed to have pituitary adenoma by skull
X-ray
series and brain. CT with or without carotid angiography. It is therefore emphasized the pituitary adenoma should be considered in the investigation of impotence of endocrine causes when marked hyperprolactinemia(especially greater than
100ng/ml.)
is
noted
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