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European Congress of Endocrinology 2021

Online
22 May 2021 - 26 May 2021

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The European Congress of Endocrinology provides a global platform for the international endocrine community to discuss the latest advances in the field.

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Symposium 14: Complex clinical cases

ea0073s14.1 | Symposium 14: Complex clinical cases | ECE2021

GH: too much, too early

Mantovani Giovanna

According to the WHO classification and to clinical practice most pituitary tumors are benign, although invasion and aggressive behavior, as well as resistance to somatostatin/dopamine (SS/DA) analogs, occur in 25 – 50% of cases. In particular, genetic forms of acrogigantism (X-linked acrogigantism - X-LAG) are characterized by a very precocious and resistant phenotype associated with microduplications in the Xq26.3 region involving the GPR101 gene. The GPR101 gene encod...