Tall Stature: Diagnostic Tests

Optional medical device diagnostics – depending on the results of the history, physical examination, and obligatory laboratory parameters – for differential diagnostic clarification.

  • Skeletal maturity determination to assess bone age and to determine growth duration and expected body size.
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the skull (cranial MRI, cranial MRI or cMRI) – in 99% of cases, a pituitary tumor (tumor of the pituitary gland) is detectable
  • Ophthalmological examinations in visual disorders (here: perimetry) – to determine possible visual pathway lesions (evidence of visual field loss due to compression of the optic chiasm: bitemporal hemianopsia/visual disorder with loss of both temporal visual fields).