“Overgrowth: Missing a tumor” acromegaly without imaging evidence of pituitary adenoma and no ectopic source: A case report
- Author:
Nicodemus Ong
1
;
Rosa Allyn Sy
2
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- Keywords: Case report
- MeSH: Acromegaly; Pituitary Neoplasms; Adenoma; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Octreotide; Cabergoline
- From: Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies 2017;32(2):173-177
- CountryPhilippines
- Language:English
- Abstract: 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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