Table of Contents

REVIEW

Communicating with Parents with Full Disclosure: A Case of Cloacal Extrophy with Genital Ambiguity

C. Myers and P.A. Lee, Hershey, PA, USA ..............  273

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

The Use of a Continuous Glucose Monitoring System in Hypoglycemic Disorders

S.C. Conrad, J.J. Mastrototaro and S.E. Gitelman, San Francisco and Northridge, CA, USA ..............  281

Seasonality of Month of Birth among African American Children with Diabetes Mellitus in the City of Chicago

V. Grover, R.B. Lipton and S.L. Sclove, Chicago, IL, USA ........  289

HLA-DQA1 and -DQB1 Alleles in Latino and African American Children with Diabetes Mellitus

B.J. McCarthy, R. Lipton and L. Nichol, Chicago, IL and Pittsburgh, PA, USA ..............  297

Efficacy of Orlistat as an Adjunct to Behavioral Treatment in Overweight African American and Caucasian Adolescents with Obesity-related Co-morbid Conditions

J.R. McDuffie, K.A. Calis, G.I. Uwaifo, N.G. Sebring E.M. Fallon, T.E. Frazer, V.S. Hubbard and J.A. Yanovski, Bethesda, MD, USA ......................  307

Protease Inhibitor Therapy Improves Protein Catabolism in Prepubertal Children with HIV Infection

D.S. Hardin, K.J. Ellis, J. Rice and M.E. Doyle, Houston, TX, USA  ......................  321

Homocysteine in a Multi-ethnic Sample of School-age Children

R.C. Bindler, L.K. Massey, J.A. Shultz, P.E. Mills and R. Short, Spokane, WA, USA ......................  327

The MACIS Score Predicts the Clinical Course of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in Children and Adolescents

P.A. Powers, C.A. Dinauer, R.M. Tuttle and G.L. Francis, Washington, DC, Bethesda, MD and New York, NY, USA ......................  339

Catch-up Growth in Severe Juvenile Hypothyroidism: Treatment with a GnRH Analog

L. Teng, H. Bui, L. Bachrach, P. Lee, N. Gagné, C. Deal and D.M. Wilson, Stanford, CA, Hershey and Pittsburgh, PA, USA and Montreal, Canada ........  345

PATIENT REPORTS

Novel TSHb Subunit Gene Mutation Causing Congenital Central Hypothyroidism in a Newborn Male

A.E. Morales, J.D. Shi, C.Y. Wang, J.-X. She and A. Muira, Gainesville, FL and Augusta, GA, USA ......  355

Diabetic Ketoacidosis Secondary to Growth Hormone Treatment in a Boy with Prader-Willi Syndrome and Steatohepatitis

S. Yigit, E. Estrada, K. Bucci, J. Hyams and S. Rosengren, Hartford, CT, USA ......................  361

McCune-Albright Syndrome Associated with Pituitary Microadenoma: Patient Report

C.-J. Chen, J.-Y. Liu, S.-N. Cheng, F.-W. Chang and Y.-S. Yuh, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China ...........  365

Classical Phenotype of Laron Syndrome in a Girl with a Heterozygous Mutation and Heterozygous Polymorphism of the Growth Hormone Receptor Gene

O. Shevah, A. Galli-Tsinopoulou, M. Rubinstein, S. Nousia-Arvanitakis and Z. Laron, Petah Tikva and Rehovot, Israel and Thessaloniki, Greece ..........  371

MEETING REPORT

The First Meeting of the Loop Club  ............375

CALENDAR ...............  377

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