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Governor Pio Pico, the monster of California…no more: lessons in neuroendocrinology

We hypothesize that Pio Pico, the last Mexican Governor of California, had acromegaly between at least ages 43 to 57, from 1844 to 1858, before Pierre Marie published the clinical description of acromegaly in 1886. Pico’s probable growth hormone-secreting pituitary tumor likely infarcted spontaneous...

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Autores principales: Login, Ivan S., Login, Jessica
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18597174
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11102-008-0127-1