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"Dangerous Growth Stopped for World's Tallest Man". Live Science. 14 март 2012. Посетено на 26 март 2018. Kosen, 29, suffers from both gigantism and acromegaly, according to one of Kösen's doctors Mary Lee Vance, an endocrinologist who specializes in pituitary diseases at the University of Virginia Health System.