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Facial aspect of a patient with acromegaly. The nose is widened and thickened, the cheekbones are obvious, the forehead bulges, the lips are thick and the facial lines are marked. The forehead and overlying skin is thickened, sometimes leading to frontal bossing.

Acromegaly

  • (Greek, akros = extremities, megas = big).
  • term was proposed by Pierre Marie, a French neurologist working in La Salpetrière Hospital, in Paris, who published the first description of the disease and its pathology in 1886.
  • term is used when the disease begins in adulthood.

Reference

<pubmed>18578866</pubmed>| PMC2459162

Philippe Chanson, et al. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2008;3:17-17.

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