JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

VOLUME 19, NUMBER 9, SEPTEMBER 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Beyond the Karyotype: Are New Screening Methods Needed for Girls with Turner’s Syndrome?

S. Rivkees, USA ...................... 1093

REVIEW

The Treatment of Graves’ Disease in Children

S.A. Rivkees, New Haven, CT, USA ..................... 1095

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Detection of Hidden Y Mosaicism in Turner’s Syndrome: Importance in the Prevention of Gonadoblastoma

B. Bianco, M.V.N. Lipay, M.I. Melaragno, A.D. Guedes and I.T.N. Verreschi, São Paulo, Brazil ................. 1113

Newborn Screening Levels of 17-Hydroxyprogesterone in Very Low Birth Weight Infants and the Relationship to Chronic Lung Disease

D.A. Paul, A. Mackley and L. Bartoshesky, Newark and Wilmington, DE and Philadelphia, PA, USA ..................... 1119

Anabolic Steroid and Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Analog Combined Treatment Increased Pubertal Height Gain and Adult Height in Two Children who Entered Puberty with Short Stature

M. Satoh and S. Yokoya, Tokyo, Japan ................ 1125

Relationships of IGF-I and Androgens to Skeletal Maturation in Obese Children and Adolescents

T. Reinehr, G. de Sousa and M. Wabitsch, Datteln and Ulm, Germany .................. 1133

Predictors of Metabolic Control at One Year in a Population of Pediatric Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Study

R. Alemzadeh, J. Ellis, M. Calhoun and J. Kichler, Milwaukee, WI, USA .................. 1141

Serum Lipid Profile in Children Receiving Anti-epileptic Drug Monotherapy: Is it Atherogenic?

H. Tekgul, N. Demir and S. Gokben, Izmir, Turkey .................... 1151

Compound Heterozygosity of a Frameshift Mutation in the Coding Region and a Single Base Substitution in the Promoter of the ACTH Receptor Gene in a Family with Isolated Glucocorticoid Deficiency

P.C. Tsiotra, A. Koukourava, V. Kaltezioti, M.E. Geffner, D. Naville, M. Begeot, S.A. Raptis and C. Tsigos, Athens, Greece, Los Angeles, CA, USA and Lyon, France .................. 1157

PATIENT REPORTS

Novel Compound Heterozygous Mutation of the MC2R Gene in a Patient with Familial Glucocorticoid Deficiency

H. Matsuura, M. Shiohara, M. Yamano, K. Kurata, F. Arai and K. Koike, Matsumoto, Japan .................... 1167

Complex Urogenital Malformation Associated with Female Pseudohermaphroditism: Caudal Dysgenesis Syndrome

A. Abaci, A. Atas, E. Bober, O. Ates, G. Hakgüder and A. Büyükgebiz, Izmir, Turkey .................... 1171

Importance of Thyroglobulin Levels for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma in an Adolescent with Severe Iodine Deficiency

Z. Şiklar, G. Öcal, M. Berberoğlu, P. Adiyaman, A.T. Ergür, O. Evliyaoğlu and S. Dizbay Sak, Ankara, Turkey ...................... 1175

Two Years of Growth Hormone Treatment in the First Growth Hormone Deficient Patient with Cerebrofaciothoracic Dysplasia

C. Kanaka-Gantenbein, H. Fryssira, K. Kakavakis, E. Bouzas, L. Thomaidis, G. Chrousos and G. Mastorakos, Athens, Greece ............... 1179

CALENDAR ....................... 1185