Severe scalp hair loss in a female patient with acromegaly treated with lanreotide autogel after unsuccessful surgery

Scalp hair loss is an underreported adverse event of somatostatin analogs therapy that in severe cases may require treatment withdrawal. It can be related to an acute decrease in GH/IGF-1 levels, but a direct effect cannot be ruled out.

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Autores principales: Alvarez-Escola, Cristina, Cárdenas-Salas, Jersy J, Pelegrina, Beatriz, Sanz-Valtierra, Angel, Lecumberri, Beatriz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26576278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.388
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author Alvarez-Escola, Cristina
Cárdenas-Salas, Jersy J
Pelegrina, Beatriz
Sanz-Valtierra, Angel
Lecumberri, Beatriz
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spelling pubmed-46414802015-11-16 Severe scalp hair loss in a female patient with acromegaly treated with lanreotide autogel after unsuccessful surgery Alvarez-Escola, Cristina Cárdenas-Salas, Jersy J Pelegrina, Beatriz Sanz-Valtierra, Angel Lecumberri, Beatriz Clin Case Rep Case Reports Scalp hair loss is an underreported adverse event of somatostatin analogs therapy that in severe cases may require treatment withdrawal. It can be related to an acute decrease in GH/IGF-1 levels, but a direct effect cannot be ruled out. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015-11 2015-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4641480/ /pubmed/26576278 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.388 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Alvarez-Escola, Cristina
Cárdenas-Salas, Jersy J
Pelegrina, Beatriz
Sanz-Valtierra, Angel
Lecumberri, Beatriz
Severe scalp hair loss in a female patient with acromegaly treated with lanreotide autogel after unsuccessful surgery
title Severe scalp hair loss in a female patient with acromegaly treated with lanreotide autogel after unsuccessful surgery
title_full Severe scalp hair loss in a female patient with acromegaly treated with lanreotide autogel after unsuccessful surgery
title_fullStr Severe scalp hair loss in a female patient with acromegaly treated with lanreotide autogel after unsuccessful surgery
title_full_unstemmed Severe scalp hair loss in a female patient with acromegaly treated with lanreotide autogel after unsuccessful surgery
title_short Severe scalp hair loss in a female patient with acromegaly treated with lanreotide autogel after unsuccessful surgery
title_sort severe scalp hair loss in a female patient with acromegaly treated with lanreotide autogel after unsuccessful surgery
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26576278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.388
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