Difficulties in diagnosis and treatment of acromegaly in a patient with a McCune-Albright syndrome. A case report and a review of literature.

Baszko-Błaszyk D, Slynko J, Liebert W, Sosnowski P, Sowiński J, Waśko R.

Case Reports 2010; 31(5): 594-596 PubMed PMID: 21173751 Keywords: Acromegaly:complications, Adult, Bone Density Conservation Agents:administration & dosage, Diagnosis, Differential, Diphosphonates:administration & dosage, Female, Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic:complications, Humans, Skull:diagnostic imaging, Somatostati.

: We describe a female patient aged 43, who at the age of five was diagnosed with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia (FD). The patient was intermittently treated in our department since the age 33, for approximately 10 years, with intravenous bisphosphonates. At the age of 42 acromegaly was diagnosed incidentally, since clinical manifestatio.....

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Vol. 31 (5) 2010 Neuro endocrinology letters

Difficulties in diagnosis and treatment of acromegaly in a patient with a McCune-Albright syndrome. A case report and a review of literature.

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