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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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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 |