研究者结合历史文献与医学知识，揭示该患者可能患有垂体瘤导致的肢端肥大症-巨人症（acromegaly-gigantism），其失明与癫痫发作症状与肿瘤压迫视神经及脑组织浸润相关。这项跨学科研究为医学史提供了珍贵案例，同时展现了文学作品对罕见病患者的深刻人文观 ...

Doctors at PGI successfully performed complex brain surgery on Sunil Kumar, a 7-foot-7-inch man with gigantism, a rare growth ...

Gigantism is a condition involving an overproduction of growth hormone (GH) before the age of puberty. Children and adolescents with this condition are atypically tall compared with children of ...

How did these magnificent marine mammals get so big? A new study explored the genetic underpinnings of gigantism in whales, identifying four genes that appear to have played crucial roles.

Gigantism and acromegaly are growth disorders that result from excess amounts of growth hormone in the body. The conditions are similar but have several differences. Growth hormone is one of the ...

Not by accident, some of the genes whose activity characterizes gigantism in cetaceans are also tumor suppressors. Parts of other mammals' genomes also play this role, offsetting the influence of ...

Otodontidae), and new evolutionary insights into its gigantism, life history strategies, ecology, and extinction, Palaeontologia Electronica (2025). DOI: 10.26879/1502 ...

In the deepest, darkest (and for many people scariest) parts of the ocean, you’ll find an incredible array of creatures that are weird, wonderful, and wildly large. Why do some deep-sea ...

To the Editor: I read with great interest the paper by Sotos et al., entitled "Cerebral Gigantism in Childhood," which appeared in the July 16 issue of the Journal. For the past year I have been ...

Jayson suffers from something known as gigantism, which is a 'condition where there is a small growth on his pituitary gland that allows for constant release of growth hormone.' When he was born ...

Kösen's unique height is caused by pituitary gigantism, a condition that results from too much growth hormone being secreted. In 2010, Kösen underwent surgery to stop further growth, Guinness ...