Delayed Diagnosis of Acromegaly in an Elderly Adult that Initially Presented as Cutis Verticis Gyrata
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Cutis verticis gyrata.
Acta Neurologica Taiwanica Vol 15 No 2 June 2006 From the Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Lotung St Mary’s Hospital, I-Lan, Taiwan. Received October 19, 2005. Revised October 25, 2005. Accepted October 31, 2005. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Zen-Yong Chen, MD. Department of Neurology, Lotung St Mary’s Hospital, No. 160, Chong-Cheng S. Road, I-Lan, Taiwan. E-mail: [email protected]...
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630 by a surgeon, 151 by a plastic surgeon, 190 by a dermatologist, and 26 by specialists in other disciplines. General and plastic surgeons performed partial biopsies only in a small percentage of the cases (1983, 3%; 1986,2%; 1988,1 %) whereas dermatologists performed many. Far fewer incisional and punch biopsies were performed by dermatologists in 1988 than in 1983 and 1986 (1983, 45%; 1986,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0002-8614
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13990