PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - T Karpathios
AU  - P Nicolaidou
AU  - A Fretzagias
AU  - S Haidas
AU  - T Thomaidis
TI  - Increased urinary catecholamines in an infant with the diencephalic syndrome.
AID  - 10.1136/adc.53.6.511
DP  - 1978 Jun 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 511--513
VI  - 53
IP  - 6
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/53/6/511.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/53/6/511.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child1978 Jun 01; 53
AB  - In an infant of 15 months with the diencephalic syndrome, urinary excretion of norepinephrine was moderately raised and epinephrine greatly so. It is suggested that catecholamine secretion may be due to sympathetic stimulation at the level of the diencephalon, by a space-occupying lesion pressing on the thalamohypothalamic pathway. Some of the symptoms of the diencephalic syndrome such as euphoria, irritability, skin pallor, and hypertension may be the result of catecholamine secretion.