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with the ICD10 diagnoses pituitary disease (D352 (benign pituitary tumor), E236 (other pituitary disease), and D353 (craniopharyngeoma)), E220 (acromegaly), E221 (hyperprolactinemia), E24 (Cushing’s syndrome), E25 (adrenogenital syndrome), and Q96
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Introduction The acromegaly levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) that occur in healthy children in pubertal age have led to the speculation that this hormone may stimulate the function of the hypothalamus–pituitary–testicular (HPT
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prevalence of CNC is not known, but it is a rare disease with about 160 index cases described to date. The most common symptoms from the endocrine side are acromegaly, thyroid and testicular tumours and Cushing's syndrome (CS) independent of
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