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Your child’s surgeon may use a type of surgery called transsphenoidal surgery to remove the pituitary tumor, which involves going through your child’s nose and sphenoid sinus, a hollow space in your child’s skull behind the nasal passages and below your child’s brain, to perform surgery. Radiation therapy for gigantism Once your growth plates have fused, excess GH causes acromegaly. In this case, you don’t grow in height, but the excess GH affects your bones’ shape and your organ size as well as other health factors.