The Features of acromegaly are all except:
A. Reduced heel pad thickness
B. Prognathism
C. Bitemporal hemianopsia
D. Intervertebral disc calcification
A. Reduced heel pad thickness
B. Prognathism
C. Bitemporal hemianopsia
D. Intervertebral disc calcification
Ans. A. Reduced heel pad thickness.
The patient suffering from acromegaly
shows excessive growth of soft tissue that results in coarsening of facial
features, prognathism, and frontal bossing.. This growth hormone—secreting
pituitary tumor will result in bitemporal hemianopsia when the tumor impinges
on the optic chiasm, which lies just above the sella turcica. Intervertebral
disc calcification can occur.
