Acquired growth hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a subject with repeated head trauma, or Tintin goes to the neurologist

Abstract

We describe the unique case of a public figure who is well known for having delayed pubertal development and statural growth ([Fig. 1][1]). We believe we have discovered why Tintin, the young reporter whose stories were published between 1929 and 1975, never grew taller and never needed to shave