Tallest Nepalese Lady with Acromegaly: A Case Report
Journal Title: Nepal Journal of Neuroscience - Year 2011, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
An 18 year-old girl from Dhorna-2, Siraha presented to the department of neurosurgery, National Neurosurgical Referral Centre, Bir hospital with features of gigantism and paraparesis grade 1/5. She was seven feet and three inches tall with body weight of about 100 kilograms. Radio imagings of brain showed pituitary macroadenoma (1.9 cm in diameter) with serum Growth Hormone (GH) level 20ng/ml. She underwent total excision of tumor by transsphenoidal approach. Although she had troublesome hyperglycemic and diabetic incipidus with hyponatremia, she made a good recovery. Literature on GH secreting pituitary tumor is reviewed here.
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Dr. Prashant Kaushal
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