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What kinds of pituitary conditions (common or rare) can bring on several inches of added height in adults after age 35 w/no other symptoms or changes?

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None: There are no pituitary conditions than can cause height growth at age 35, or at any age after the normal human height-growth years have completed.

Answered 11/12/2016

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