JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

VOLUME 17,  NO. 4 (2004)

Table of Contents

 REVIEW

 

Anatomical Studies of the Female Genitalia: Surgical Reconstructive Implications

L.S. Baskin, San Francisco, CA, USA ..............  581

 

COMMENTARY

 

Asymptomatic Testicular Adrenal Rest Tumours (see paper by Stikkelbroeck et al. on page 645)

I. Hughes, Cambridge, UK ....  589

 

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

 

Growth Hormone Improves Body Composition and Motor Development in Infants with Prader-Willi Syndrome After Six Months

B. Whitman, A. Carrel, T. Bekx, C. Weber, D. Allen and S. Myers, St. Louis, MO and Madison, WI, USA  ... 591

 

Growth Hormone Deficiency in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease and Growth Failure

G. Nunlee-Bland, S.R. Rana, P.E. Houston-Yu and W. Odonkor, Washington, DC, USA ...............  601

 

Sex Steroid Hormones, Growth and Puberty in Children with Portal Hypertension

C.M. Yuse-Gabriel, B.L. Shneider, F. Daum, D. Yoon, C.P. Sison and P.W. Speiser, New Hyde Park and Manhattan, NY, USA ...............  607

 

Plasma Insulin-Like Growth Factors (IGFs), IGF-Binding Proteins (IGFBPs), Acid-Labile Subunit (ALS) and IGFBP-3 Proteolysis in Individuals with Clinical Characteristics of Sotos Syndrome

L. de Boer, C.M. Hoogerbrugge, J. van Doorn, S.C. van Buul-Offers, M. Karperien and J.M. Wit, Leiden and Utrecht, The Netherlands ...  615

 

Neonatal Hypoglycemia in a Growth Hormone Registry: Incidence and Pathogenesis

J.J. Bell, G.P. August, S.L. Blethen and J. Baptista, New York, NY, Washington, DC and South San Francisco, CA, USA ...............  629

 

Growth Hormone Secretion and Long-term Growth Data in Children with Psychosocial Short Stature Treated by Different Changes in Environment

B.C. Gohlke, F.L. Frazer and R. Stanhope, Bonn, Germany and London, UK .  637

 

Asymptomatic Testicular Adrenal Rest Tumours in Adolescent and Adult Males with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: Basal and Follow-up Investigation After 2.6 Years

N.M.M.L. Stikkelbroeck, A.R.M.M. Hermus, H.M. Suliman, G.J. Jager and B.J. Otten, Nijmegen, The Netherlands ...  645

 

Reversibility of Thyrotroph Hyperplasia after L-Thyroxine Replacement Therapy in Patients with Juvenile Primary Hypothyroidism

A. Bhansali, P. Sreenivasulu, N. Khandelwal and S.R. Masoodi, Chandigarh, India  ... 655

 

SHORT COMMUNICATION

 

The Management of Sellar Masses: Not All Pituitary Tumours Require Surgery for Diagnosis and/or Therapy

J. Torpiano, M. Vanderpump and R. Stanhope, London, UK .  ... 663

 

PATIENT REPORTS

 

Transient Hypothyroidism in a Breastfed Infant After Maternal Use of Iodoform Gauze

A. L’Italien, P.J. Starceski and N.M. Dixit, Tucson, AZ, USA ..............  665

 

Hypothyroidism in Siblings Due to a Homozygous Mutation of the TSH-b Subunit Gene

E.I. Felner, B.A. Dickson and P.C. White, New Orleans, LA and Dallas, TX, USA ...  669

 

Maternal Activating Mutation of the Calcium-Sensing Receptor: Implications for Calcium Metabolism in the Neonate

Y.L. Pagan, J. Hirschhorn, B. Yang, L. D’Souza-Li, J.A. Majzoub and G.N. Hendy, Boston, MA, USA and Montreal, Canada ........  673

 

Pseudo-precocious Puberty Caused by a Juvenile Granulosa Cell Tumour Secreting Androstenedione, Inhibin and Insulin-like Growth Factor-I

L.F. Chan, H.L. Storr, I. Scheimberg, L.A. Perry, K. Banerjee, F. Miraki-Moud, C. Camacho-Hübner and M.O. Savage, London, UK ...............  679

 

MEETING REPORT

 

The Third European Growth Plate Working Group Symposium  ... 685

 

CALENDAR ....  695

 

Indexed or abstracted by:        BIOSIS, CABS, Current Contents/Life Sciences, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus, Research Alert and Science Citation Index

 

 

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