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Local gigantism – Causes | Congenital
Congenital causes include:
- Klippel Trenaunay Weber syndrome
- Maffucci syndrome
- macrodystrophia lipomatosa
- neurofibromatosis,
- lipoatrophic diabetes.
- Proteus syndrome, which by one theory accounts for the deformities of the Elephant Man
Local gigantism – Causes | Acquired
There are a number of acquired causes of local gigantism. A body part can attain bigger size from causes as common as the following:
- inflammation, due to trauma or infection
- tumors like osteoid osteoma, melorheostosis, and lipofibromatous hamartoma
- Arteriovenous malformations occurring on a limb, before the closure of epiphyses in long bones
- Elephantiasis, which is quite common in south-east asia due to prevalence of filariasis.
- Still's disease
- amyloidosis
- acromegaly