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Berardinelli syndrome

Berardinelli syndrome (W. Berardinelli, совр. the Brazilian endocrinologist) – the inborn disease which is expressed disturbances of fatty and carbohydrate metabolism, displays of acromegalic giantism and other symptoms of hyperfunction of a hypophysis; it is caused by defeat or anomaly of development of a diencephalon.

 
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