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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
Copyright
© 2008 Chanson and Salenave; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Philippe Chanson, et al. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2008;3:17-17.
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