TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor’s Comment ......  815

REVIEWS

Osteoporosis in Childhood: Bone Density of Children in Health and Disease

I.M. van der Sluis and S.M.P.F. de Muinck Keizer-Schrama, Rotterdam, The Netherlands .........  817

Osteoporosis in Children and Adolescents: Diagnosis, Risk Factors, and Prevention

G. Saggese, G.I. Baroncelli and S. Bertelloni, Pisa, Italy ........  833

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Vasopressin Replacement Therapy in Children

V. Rizzo, A. Albanese and R. Stanhope, London, UK ......  861

Endocrine Sequelae of Childhood Craniopharyngioma

B. Bin-Abbas, H. Mawlawi, N. Sakati, Y. Khafaja, M. Ashraf Chaudhary and A. Al-Ashwal, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia .......  869

Relationship Between Renal Volume and Increased Albumin Excretion Rates in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

F.L. Frazer, L.J. Palmer, A. Clarey, S. Thonell and G.C. Byrne, Subiaco and Perth, Australia and Boston, MA, USA ........  875

Height Velocity in Argentinean Girls with Turner’s Syndrome

H. Lejarraga, A. Martínez, C. García Rudaz, R. Hauspie, F Tibaldi, A. Keselman and J. Heinrich, Buenos Aires, Argentina
and Brussels, Belgium ..........  883

PATIENT REPORTS

Transient Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus in a Child with Paternal Uniparental Disomy of Chromosome 6

T. Milenkovic, D. Zdravkovic, R.J. Gardner, M. Ignjatovic and B. Jankovic, Belgrade, Yugoslavia and Salisbury, UK ......  893

Central Precocious Puberty in a Girl with Triple X Syndrome and Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus Associated with Paternal Isodisomy of Chromosome 6

G. Valerio, A. Franzese, A. Palmieri, D.J.G. Mackay, R.J. Gardner and I.K. Temple, Udine and Naples, Italy
and Salisbury and Southampton, UK ............  897

Severe Hypothyroidism Due to Autoimmune Atrophic Thyroiditis - Predicted Target Height and a Plausible Mechanism for Sexual Precocity

M. Niedziela and E. Korman, Poznan, Poland .........  901

Autoimmune Polyglandular Endocrinopathy and Anterior Hypophysitis in a 14 Year-Old Girl Presenting with Delayed Puberty

A.P. Cemeroglu, E. Böber, B. Dündar and A. Büyükgebiz, Izmir, Turkey ..............  909

Severe Hypercalcemia of an Infant Due to Vitamin D Toxicity Associated With Hypercholesterolemia

O. Evliyaoğlu, M. Berberoğlu, G. Öcal, P. Adıyaman and Z. Aycan, Ankara, Turkey .........  915

MEETING REPORT

First World Congress on the Fetal Origins of Adult Disease

A. Aihie Sayer, Southampton, UK .....  921

BOOK REVIEWS .......  925

CALENDAR ..........  927

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