acanthosis nigricans/headache

The patient was a 61-year-old man who initially complained of skin pigmentation. He was diagnosed as malignant acanthosis nigricans associated with gastric cancer (IIc advanced) in March 1981. Surgical excision of the stomach was performed in May 1981. In July 1981 he experienced headache, vomiting

BACKGROUND Craniosynostosis is an abnormal and premature fusion of any cranial suture. Twenty per cent of them involve any specific syndrome with Mendelian transmission; the other 80% are "non syndromic", although but 10-14% of them are genetically transmitted. Using the experience of two patients

A personal series of 256 cases of acromegaly/gigantism seen over a 20-year period from 1963 is described. The insidious nature of the condition resulted in delay in diagnosis which was often made by a doctor when seeing the patient for an unrelated problem. Other features which commonly led to the

BACKGROUND Overweight/obesity in children is increasing. Incidence data for medical complications use arbitrary cutoff values for categories of overweight and obesity. Continuous relationships are seldom reported. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to report relationships of child body mass

The objective of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of the different pathological conditions causing clinically evident androgen excess and to document the degree of long-term success of suppressive and/or antiandrogen hormonal therapy in a large consecutive population of patients. All