ea0007p98 | Endocrine tumours and neoplasia | BES2004
Hordern S
, Banu G
, Nussey S
A 71 year old obese lady was noticed to have acromegalic facies and bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome, increasing ring and shoe size, but no sweats or headaches. Random IGF-1 was raised (39.1nanomol per litre). Following oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) fasting glucose was normal but impaired at 2hours (4.8 and 9.6millimol per litre respectively), growth hormone (GH) suppressed from a baseline of 3.8microunits per litre to 2.2microunits per litre. Following thyrotropin releas...