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What types of medical conditions could cause an adult, whose growth plates should have closed years ago, to grow one, two or three inches?
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Acromegaly.: Even with closed growth plates, slow growth of bone is possible with the massive "overdose" of growth hormone that the pituitary produces in acromegaly.
Answered 7/18/2015
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