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Gigantism

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = The condition of accelerated and excessive GROWTH in children or adolescents who are exposed to excess HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE before the closure of EPIPHYSES. ,Created For = LHSA-Dott,Use For = Giantism

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Folder of notes and press clipppings relative to giantism, c 1891

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/B24
Scope and Contents

Folder of notes and press clipppings relative to giantism.

Dates: c 1891

PR4.199, 1932

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.199
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: sexual immaturity; and gigantism. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1932

PR1.1552, 1938-1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1552
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, newspaper clipping, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: headache; acromegaly; hemianopia; chromophobe adenoma; and gigantism. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital after several admissions.

Dates: 1938-1942

PR2.1607, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1607
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 68 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: fatigue; tremor; hallucinations; dementia; and arteriosclerosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1943

PR2.2593, 1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2593
Scope and Contents

Notes, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 43 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: hypertension; acromegaly; and gigantism. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944