Effects of Octreotide Infusion, Surgery and Estrogen on Suppression of Height Increase and 20K Growth Hormone Ratio in a Girl with Gigantism due to a Growth Hormone-Secreting Macroadenoma

Masanori Minagawa,Toshiyuki Yasuda,Tomohiro Someya,Yoichi Kohno,Naokatsu Saeki,Yoshihide Hashimoto

Effects of Octreotide Infusion, Surgery and Estrogen on Suppression of Height Increase and 20K Growth Hormone Ratio in a Girl with Gigantism due to a Growth Hormone-Secreting Macroadenoma

2000

Masanori Minagawa
Toshiyuki Yasuda
Tomohiro Someya
Yoichi Kohno
Naokatsu Saeki
Yoshihide Hashimoto

We treated an extremely tall 13-year-old girl with a growth hormone (GH)-secreting macroadenoma and GH levels of 120–495 ng/ml with a combination of preoperative octreotide infusion, surgery and posto

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Hormone
Internal medicine
Endocrinology
Estrogen
Diabetes mellitus
Gigantism
Hormone secreting
Octreotide
Girl
Surgery
Medicine
growth hormone

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