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Acromegaly and psoriasis
D J Todd1, D J Eedy, J C McMillan
1Department of Dermatology, Belfast City Hospital, UK.
Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 56-year-old man with long-standing chronic plaque psoriasis was noted to be acromegalic. Investigations confirmed the presence of a large pituitary adenoma and following treatment of this by hypophysectomy his psoriasis cleared dramatically within 3 weeks.