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“Overgrowth: Missing a Tumor” Acromegaly without Imaging Evidence of Pituitary Adenoma and No Ectopic Source: A Case Report
Growth hormone - secreting pituitary adenomas are the cause of acromegaly in 95% of patients. In rare circumstances, a pituitary adenoma on magnetic resonance imaging cannot be found; hence, a search for an ectopic source of GH production is done. Even rarer is an acromegalic patient without an ecto...
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Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784194/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33442103 http://dx.doi.org/10.15605/jafes.032.02.13 |
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description | Growth hormone - secreting pituitary adenomas are the cause of acromegaly in 95% of patients. In rare circumstances, a pituitary adenoma on magnetic resonance imaging cannot be found; hence, a search for an ectopic source of GH production is done. Even rarer is an acromegalic patient without an ectopic source and without imaging evidence of pituitary adenoma. We report a case of acromegaly with no evidence of a pituitary adenoma and no evidence of an ectopic source after imaging studies; who underwent medical therapy with improving biochemical and clinical parameters. |
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spelling | pubmed-77841942021-01-12 “Overgrowth: Missing a Tumor” Acromegaly without Imaging Evidence of Pituitary Adenoma and No Ectopic Source: A Case Report Ong, Nicodemus Sy, Rosa Allyn J ASEAN Fed Endocr Soc Case Report Growth hormone - secreting pituitary adenomas are the cause of acromegaly in 95% of patients. In rare circumstances, a pituitary adenoma on magnetic resonance imaging cannot be found; hence, a search for an ectopic source of GH production is done. Even rarer is an acromegalic patient without an ectopic source and without imaging evidence of pituitary adenoma. We report a case of acromegaly with no evidence of a pituitary adenoma and no evidence of an ectopic source after imaging studies; who underwent medical therapy with improving biochemical and clinical parameters. Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies 2017-09-06 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC7784194/ /pubmed/33442103 http://dx.doi.org/10.15605/jafes.032.02.13 Text en © 2017 Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Ong, Nicodemus Sy, Rosa Allyn “Overgrowth: Missing a Tumor” Acromegaly without Imaging Evidence of Pituitary Adenoma and No Ectopic Source: A Case Report |
title | “Overgrowth: Missing a Tumor” Acromegaly without Imaging Evidence of Pituitary Adenoma and No Ectopic Source: A Case Report |
title_full | “Overgrowth: Missing a Tumor” Acromegaly without Imaging Evidence of Pituitary Adenoma and No Ectopic Source: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | “Overgrowth: Missing a Tumor” Acromegaly without Imaging Evidence of Pituitary Adenoma and No Ectopic Source: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | “Overgrowth: Missing a Tumor” Acromegaly without Imaging Evidence of Pituitary Adenoma and No Ectopic Source: A Case Report |
title_short | “Overgrowth: Missing a Tumor” Acromegaly without Imaging Evidence of Pituitary Adenoma and No Ectopic Source: A Case Report |
title_sort | “overgrowth: missing a tumor” acromegaly without imaging evidence of pituitary adenoma and no ectopic source: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784194/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33442103 http://dx.doi.org/10.15605/jafes.032.02.13 |
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