National Cooperative Growth Study (NCGS) Investigator Meeting, 2001

Guest editor: F.R. Kaufman

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

F.R. Kaufman, USA .............  667

Childhood Brain Tumors

C.A. Sklar, USA ...  669

Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Short Stature: Data from National Cooperative Growth Study (NCGS) Substudy 8

S.F. Kemp, C.A. Alter, K. Dana, J. Baptista and S.L. Blethen, USA  ... 675

Utility of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Evaluation of the Child with Central Diabetes Insipidus

C.A. Alter and L.T. Bilaniuk, USA .............  681

Characteristics of Growth Hormone Therapy for Pediatric Patients with Brain Tumors in the National Cooperative Growth Study (NCGS) and from a Survey of Pediatric Endocrinologists

L.R. Meacham and K. Sullivan, USA .............  689

Septo-Optic Dysplasia/Optic Nerve Hypoplasia: Data from the National Cooperative Growth Study (NCGS)

K.L. Parker, J.J. Hunold and S.L. Blethen, USA  ... 697

Genetic Disorders of Human Growth

M.P. Wajnrajch, USA .............  701

A Long-Acting Human Growth Hormone (Nutropin Depot®): Efficacy and Safety Following Two Years of Treatment in Children with Growth Hormone Deficiency

B.L. Silverman, S.L. Blethen, E.O. Reiter, K.M. Attie, R.B. Neuwirth and K.M. Ford, USA . ...  715

Growth Hormone Treatment and Pseudotumor Cerebri: Coincidence or Close Relationship?

G.D. Reeves and D.A. Doyle, USA  ... 723

Growth Problems and Growth Hormone Treatment in Children with Cystic Fibrosis

D.S. Hardin, USA ...  731

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Children and Youth: A New Epidemic

F.R. Kaufman, USA .............  737

Progress in the Treatment of Childhood Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity

D.M. Wilson, USA .............  745

Exercise, Diet, and Childhood Obesity: The GH–IGF-I Connection

D. Nemet and D.M. Cooper, USA .............  751

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