[Study of secretion and blood protein transport of testosterone in patients with neurogenic facial diseases].

Altogether 85 patients with the painful syndromes in the facial and head areas were examined for secretion and transport of testosterone, the main androgen occurring in the body of adult man, by the blood proteins globulin- and albumin-binding sex steroids. All the women examined were in the menopause. The majority of the patients manifested hyperandrogenemia: a decrease in the concentration of sex steroids-binding globulin, rise of total testosterone and its free fraction in the blood serum as well as increase of the index of free androgens. Approaches to the correction of the revealed abnormalities and the role played by those abnormalities in the pathogenesis of the above-indicated diseases are under discussion.