Cerebral gigantism: endocrinological and clinical observations of six patients including a congenital giant, concordant monozygotic twins, and a child who acheived adult gigantic size

J Pediatr. 1967 Jun;70(6):900-14. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(67)80263-4.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Age Determination by Skeleton
  • Anthropometry
  • Body Height
  • Body Weight
  • Brain Diseases / complications*
  • Cerebral Ventriculography
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Diseases in Twins*
  • Electroencephalography
  • Female
  • Foot Deformities, Congenital
  • Gigantism / congenital*
  • Gigantism / genetics*
  • Glucose Tolerance Test
  • Growth Hormone / physiology*
  • Hand Deformities, Congenital
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Insulin / physiology*
  • Intellectual Disability / complications
  • Intelligence Tests
  • Limb Deformities, Congenital
  • Male
  • Pituitary Function Tests
  • Skull / abnormalities

Substances

  • Insulin
  • Growth Hormone