The role of radiotherapy in acromegaly

AJ van der Lely, WW De Herder - The Journal of Clinical …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
The manuscript of Barkan et al.(1), in this issue of JCEM (see page 3187), in which they
describe the inefficacy of pituitary irradiation in normalizing serum insulin-like growth factor I …

Acromegaly

S Ezzat - Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 1997 - Elsevier
Although the earliest documented case of acromegaly is controversial, the disease can be
recognized by its classic clinical features in the Egyptian king Akhenaton, who lived in the …

A rare case of gastric cancer in an acromegalic patient

K Asai, S Shimoyama, N Sanno, M Kaminishi… - Journal of …, 1997 - Springer
Although it has been demonstrated that acromegalic patients have an increased risk of
neoplasms, especially colon neoplasms, gastric cancer with acromegaly is very rare—only …

A risk-benefit assessment of octreotide in the treatment of acromegaly

AJ van der Lely, WW de Herder, SWJ Lamberts - Drug safety, 1997 - Springer
Acromegaly was the first pituitary disease to be recognised as a clinical entity, although
initially it was not clear whether the eosinophilic adenomas causing pituitary enlargement …