Pituitary gigantism

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.

Also known as: hypophyseal gigantism, infantile and juvenile forms of acromegaly, gigantism

1520 clinical trials for this condition and its sub-types, 4 tagged with Pituitary gigantism itself.