Giants and dwarfs have been portrayed in postcards of the 19th and 20th century, sometimes standing beside to normal height people to emphasize their noticeably stature or disproportions (1, 2). An example is the autographed Austrian postcard (sent from Graz on March 21st, 1937) (Fig. 1) representing Vaino Myllyrinne (1909-1963), the tallest man in the world at that time ("Der groBte Mann der Welt" whose height corresponded to 1.5 times the height of a normal subject, as written in the front of the postcard), aside to a man of regular height. Typical acromegalic features (3), including tall stature, enlargement of feet, nose, lips and ears, and pronounced jaw and brow protrusion, are clearly visible. His parents and siblings were of normal height. At the age of 21, he measured 222 cm and weighed 197 kg and continued growing reaching a final height of 251 cm in his late thirties, suggesting the presence of secondary hypogonadism due to adenoma's compression on pituitary tissue.
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