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ea0011p460 | Endocrine tumours and neoplasia | ECE2006

Familial acromegaly

Oruk G , Kucuksahin O , Soysal D , Tatar E , Ozdemir C

Acromegaly is usually regarded as a disease which occurs sporadically. Familial occurence of acromegaly due to pituitary adenoma without any other endocrinopathy in a family is extremely rare. These patients should be evaluated for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN 1) and Carney complex. We report here two cases of acromegaly due to pituitary macroadenomas. Subject 1 is a 50-year-old woman and subject 2 is her 23-year-old son with elevated growth hormone (GH) levels dur...