THE MINNEAPOLIS GIANT
Authors: H. Gray
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1937)

Article1 May 1937THE MINNEAPOLIS GIANTH. GRAYH. GRAYAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-10-11-1669 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptGiants are not only dramatic to the layman as extreme variations of the human being, but valuable for the study of growth. In this respect they afford a considerable quantity of evidence which can profitably be analyzed in comparison with normal proportions, particularly of the extremities.CASE REPORTJ. A., a single white male of 46 years, may be called the Minneapolis Giant, after his birthplace. He was admitted to Lane Hospital November 1, 1936, with the chief complaint of foot ulcers of four years' duration.Family History. His father's father, the Norwegian Giant, was reputed to be 2520 mm....References1. DAVIDOFF L: Acromegaly; symptomatology in 100 cases, Endocrinology, 1926, x, 461. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. BUDAYJANCSO KN: Ein Fall von pathologischem Riesenwuchs, Deutsch. Arch. f. klin. Med., 1898, lx, 385. Google Scholar3. MARK LP: Acromegaly, a personal experience, London, 1912. Google Scholar4. HUMBERD CD: Twenty-five year old error in measuring giant, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1936, cvi, 1713. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. LACKEY WN: Akromegaly, Phila. Med. Jr., 1899, iv, 169. Google Scholar6. CUNNINGHAM DJ: The Irish giant, Trans. Roy. Irish Acad., 1891, xxix, 553. Google Scholar7. HUMBERD CD: Giantism, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1937, cviii, 544. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. TOPINARD P: Éléments d'anthropologie générale, Paris, 1885, p. 436. Google Scholar9. LAUNOISROY PEP: Études biologiques sur les Géants, 1904, Masson, Paris, pp. 148, 242, 243. Google Scholar10. CUSHING H: The pituitary body, 1912, Lippincott, Philadelphia, p. 169. Google Scholar11. DANA CL: On acromegaly and giantism, Jr. Nervous and Mental Dis., 1893, xviii, 725. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12. GRAY H: Body build in football players, Research Quart. Am. Phys. Ed. Assoc., 1936, vii, 47. Google Scholar13. PENTAGNA O: Acromegalia con note di dolicostenomelia in un bambino di 11 anni, Pediatria, 1932, xl, 1061. Google Scholar14. HRDLICKA A: Old Americans, 1925, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, p. 338. Google Scholar15. BAYERGRAY LMH: The hand, method of measurement, Am. Jr. Phys. Anthrop., 1933, xvii, 379. CrossrefGoogle Scholar16. BAYERGRAY LMH: Hand size in women, Human Biol., 1936, viii, 267. Google Scholar17. BACH F: Proportionsstudien, cited in MARTIN, R.: Lehrbuch der Anthropologie, Fischer, Jena, ed. 2, p. 398. Google Scholar18. PEL PK: Acromégalie partielle, Nouv. Icon., 1906, xix, 76. Google Scholar19. LINSER P: Über die Beziehungen zwischen Nebennieren und Körperwachstum, Beitr. z. klin. Chir., 1903, xxxvii, 282. Google Scholar20. HUDOVERNIGPOPOVITS CUP: Gigantisme Précoce, Nouv. Iconographie, 1903, xvi, 181. Google Scholar21. BASSOE P: Gigantism, in Barker's Endocrinology and Metabolism, New York, 1922, ii, 813. Google Scholar22. BONARDI E: Dell' Acromegalia, Il Morgagni, 1899, xli, 541. Google Scholar23. HINSDALE G: Acromegaly, Medicine, 1898, iv, 813. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: San Francisco, California*Received for publication March 20, 1937.From the Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, California. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byFamilial Isolated Pituitary Adenomas (FIPA) and the Pituitary Adenoma Predisposition due to Mutations in the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Interacting Protein (AIP) GeneAcromegalic gigantism, physicians and body snatching. Past or present?Acromegaly and gigantism in the medical literature. Case descriptions in the era before and the early years after the initial publication of Pierre Marie (1886)Severe peripheral neuropathy and elevated plantar pressures causing foot ulceration in pituitary gigantismAcromegaly and GigantismPITUITARY GIGANTISM: A DISABLING CONDITIONNeoplasms of the Pituitary GlandDiagnostik der intrakraniellen GeschwülsteAcromegalic gigantismPathologische Anatomie und Physiologie der hypophysär-hypothalamischen KrankheitenDie Keimdrüsen und ihre KrankheitenDer Kopf-Kiefer-Index und seine ontogenetische, phylogenetische und klinische Bedeutung.Das Hypophysen-Zwischenhirnsystem und seine KrankheitenDas Hypophysen-Zwischenhirnsystem und seine KrankheitenDas Hypophysen-Zwischenhirnsystem und seine Krankheiten 1 May 1937Volume 10, Issue 11Page: 1669-1682KeywordsUlcers ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 May 1937 PDF downloadLoading ...