Die große Barb im Marburger Universitätsmuseum

Autor: W. Krause, G. Rassner, R. Happle
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Der Hautarzt. 60:502-504
ISSN: 1432-1173
0017-8470
DOI: 10.1007/s00105-009-1762-9
Popis: The university museum for cultural history in the castle of Marburg has a portrait"Die grosse Barb", which represents a women suffering from acromegaly. She shows the typical pathologic alterations: thickening of the skin folds, thickening of the lips and the eyelids, growth of bones and cartilages, lengthening of the nose, enlargement of the ears, protrusion of the zygoma, mandible and the chin. Acromegaly is a consequence of enhanced secretion of growth hormone, which occurs also as a symptom of several syn- dromes, such as multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1, McCune-Albright-syndrome, and NAME syndrome (Carney complex type I). The most remarkable symptom of acromegaly is the gigantism.This occurs also in androgen-deficient states, such as the Klinefelter syndrome and some more genetic syndromes, of which the Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome, the Sotos syndrome, the Mar-fan syndrome, the homocystinuria, and the fragile X-syndrome may be mentioned. Nothing is known on the further fate of the patient shown in the portrait. It is also unknown, whether she owes her position as a chamber-maid to her gigantism, for it was a common use in courts to have people with abnormal body shapes in attendance.
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