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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...
Autores principales: | Ong, Nicodemus, Sy, Rosa Allyn |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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