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Acromegaly and gigantism in the medical literature. Case descriptions in the era before and the early years after the initial publication of Pierre Marie (1886)

In 1886 Pierre Marie used the term “acromegaly” for the first time and gave a full description of the characteristic clinical picture. However several others had already given clear clinical descriptions before him and sometimes had given the disease other names. After 1886, it gradually became clea...

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Autor principal: de Herder, Wouter W.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18683056
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11102-008-0138-y