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"Overgrowth: Missing a Tumor" Acromegaly without Imaging Evidence of Pituitary Adenoma and No Ectopic Source: A Case
Nicodemus Ong1, Rosa Allyn Sy2
1Department of Internal Medicine, Cardinal Santos Medical Center, Philippines.
Abstract:
Growth hormone - secreting pituitary adenomas are the cause of acromegaly in 95% of patients. In rare circumstances, a pituitary adenoma on magnetic resonance imaging cannot be found; hence, a search for an ectopic source of GH production is done. Even rarer is an acromegalic patient without an ectopic source and without imaging evidence of pituitary adenoma. We report a case of acromegaly with no evidence of a pituitary adenoma and no evidence of an ectopic source after imaging studies; who underwent medical therapy with improving biochemical and clinical parameters.

