A member asked:
Do acromegaly and plagiocephaly share any common symptoms?
4 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Not really: Both involve changes in head shape, but nothing else. Acromegaly involves abnormal growth and/or thickening of the brow, jaw, and other bones due to gh excess. More growth than thickening in children. It is a serious condition. Plagio is a flattening due to a constant position in a growing infant skull. Like the flat (earthen) side of a pumpkin that has sat in a field.
Answered 4/1/2013
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Plagiocephaly: The two are not at all related - two different disease entities.
Answered 9/3/2014
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Plagiocephaly: Two entirely different clinical problems. Plagiocephaly is a disorder of the skull bones in a baby while acromegaly is a disorder of the pituitary gland.
Answered 6/4/2014
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