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- Title:
[82-year old patient with hyperostosis frontalis, prognathism, makroglossia and cutis gyrata. Acromegaly]
- Document type:
- Case Reports; Journal Article
- Author(s):
- Mönnich, H; Böhm, BO; Weidenbach, H
- Abstract:
- We present a 82 year old female patient with typical acral enlargement. There were no signs of visceromegaly. Magnetic resonance imaging of the pituitary region showed a macroadenoma. Oral glucose tolerance test revealed missing suppression of the Human Growth Hormone (HGH), which could be achieved with a long acting somatostatin analog. A HGH suppressive therapy with a long acting dopamine agonist (Cabergolin) was induced. The patient died one year later following cardiovascular complications.
- Journal title abbreviation:
- Internist (Berl)
- Year:
- 2004
- Journal volume:
- 45
- Journal issue:
- 7
- Pages contribution:
- 815-9
- Language:
- de
- Fulltext / DOI:
- doi:10.1007/s00108-004-1194-7
- Pubmed ID:
- http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15160242
- Print-ISSN:
- 0020-9554
- TUM Institution:
- II. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik (Gastroenterologie)
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