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Descriptor English: Gigantism
Descriptor Spanish: Gigantismo
Descriptor gigantismo
Scope note: Afección en la que se produce un crecimiento excesivo de todo el cuerpo o de cualquiera de sus partes.
Descriptor Portuguese: Gigantismo
Descriptor French: Gigantisme
Entry term(s): Gigantism, Pituitary
Pituitary Gigantism
Tree number(s): C05.116.099.492
C05.116.132.479
C19.700.355.528
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005877
Scope note: The condition of accelerated and excessive GROWTH in children or adolescents who are exposed to excess HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE before the closure of EPIPHYSES. It is usually caused by somatotroph hyperplasia or a GROWTH HORMONE-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA. These patients are of abnormally tall stature, more than 3 standard deviations above normal mean height for age.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Related: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome MeSH
Sotos Syndrome MeSH
DeCS ID: 6016
Unique ID: D005877
NLM Classification: WK 550
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Gigantism - Preferred
Concept UI M0009228
Scope note The condition of accelerated and excessive GROWTH in children or adolescents who are exposed to excess HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE before the closure of EPIPHYSES. It is usually caused by somatotroph hyperplasia or a GROWTH HORMONE-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA. These patients are of abnormally tall stature, more than 3 standard deviations above normal mean height for age.
Preferred term Gigantism
Entry term(s) Gigantism, Pituitary
Pituitary Gigantism



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