May 24, 2008

Tintin's Beatdowns: The Trauma Chart

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There's a reason Tintin's a shrimp. In fact there are many reasons. All bad. Acquired growth hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a subject with repeated head trauma, or Tintin goes to the neurologist

We do not know Tintin's perinatal history. According to Hergé, the author of these stories, Tintin was 14 or 15 years old when he was created.1 He would, therefore, have been at least 60 years old during his final adventure with the Picaros. In that book, even though he had reached adulthood, Tintin has no beard or grey hair, and he exhibits no signs of pubertal development. Recent literature has helped us gain a better understanding of the pathophysiology of hypopituitarism resulting from repeated head trauma.3 We believe that the multiple traumas Tintin sustained could be the first case of traumatic pituitary injury described in the literature.

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