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Case Report:  Acromegalic phenotype is not always acromegaly (#356)

Sandya Jalapu 1 2 , Durgesh Gowda 1 , Sheila J Cook 1 2
  1. Toowoomba Health Service, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
  2. University of Queensland Rural Clinical School, Toowoomba
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  1. Yaqub A, Yaqub N, 2008 Insulin-mediated pseudoacromegaly: a case report and review of the literature. W V Med J 104: 12-15.
  2. Kausch C, Bergemann C, Hamann A, Matthaei S, 1999 Insulin-mediated pseudoacromegaly in a patient with severe insulin resistance: association of defective insulin-stimulated glucose transport with impaired phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity in fibroblasts. Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 107: 148-154.
  3. Adline Ghazi, Shikha Khosla and Kenneth Becker Acromegaloid Facial Appearance: Case Report and Literature Review. Case Reports in Endocrinology Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 970396, 4 pages
  4. Zen PR, Schwartz IVD, Paskulin GA. Acromegaloid facial appearance and hypertrichosis: a case suggesting autosomal recessive inheritance, Clinical Dysmorphology, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 49–50, 200