Prepubertal gynecomastia a rare complication of growth hormone therapy. 2010

Shrikrishna V Acharya, and Raju A Gopal, and Tushar R Bandgar, and Padma S Menon, and Nalini S Shah
Department of Endocrinology, Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India. drshri25@rediffmail.com

We report a case of prepubertal gynecomastia diagnosed during growth hormone (GH) treatment. In our patient gynecomastia appeared 6 months after GH was started. This condition appears to be self-limited and benign. In our patient gynaecomastia resolved on its own.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D006130 Growth Disorders Deviations from the average values for a specific age and sex in any or all of the following: height, weight, skeletal proportions, osseous development, or maturation of features. Included here are both acceleration and retardation of growth. Stunted Growth,Stunting,Disorder, Growth,Growth Disorder,Growth, Stunted,Stuntings
D006177 Gynecomastia Enlargement of the BREAST in the males, caused by an excess of ESTROGENS. Physiological gynecomastia is normally observed in NEWBORNS; ADOLESCENT; and AGING males. Adolescent Gynecomastia,Infant Gynecomastia,Male Breast Enlargement,Newborn Gynecomastia,Breast Enlargement, Male,Enlargement, Male Breast,Gynecomastia, Adolescent,Gynecomastia, Infant,Gynecomastia, Newborn
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D019382 Human Growth Hormone A 191-amino acid polypeptide hormone secreted by the human adenohypophysis (PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR), also known as GH or somatotropin. Synthetic growth hormone, termed somatropin, has replaced the natural form in therapeutic usage such as treatment of dwarfism in children with growth hormone deficiency. Somatotropin (Human),Somatropin (Human),Cryo-Tropin,Genotonorm,Genotropin,Humatrope,Maxomat,Norditropin,Norditropin Simplexx,Norditropine,Nutropin,Omnitrope,Recombinant Human Growth Hormone (Mammalian),Saizen,Serostim,Somatropin,Umatrope,Zomacton,hGH (Human Growth Hormone),r-hGH(m),r-hGH-M,Cryo Tropin,CryoTropin,Growth Hormone, Human

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