JOURNAL OF

PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

VOLUME 20, NUMBER 5, MAY 2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Advertised Calories per Hour … 2,000+: Anti-Obesity Announcements per Hour … 0

S.A. Rivkees, New Haven, CT, USA [free text] ....................... 557

REVIEW

How Should We Be Treating Children with Congenital Hypothyroidism?

S.H. LaFranchi and J. Austin, Portland, OR, USA [free text] ........................559

SOCIETY NEWS

Editorial: Pediatric Endocrinology Around the Globe: Our Common and Unique World

S.A. Rivkees, New Haven, CT, USA ...................................... 579

The Spanish Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (SEEP): Where Did We Come From and Where Are We Going?
A Scientific Perspective: Past, Present and Future

J. Argente, Madrid, Spain .......................................581

IMAGES IN PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY

Aplasia Cutis Congenita Following in Utero Methimazole Exposure

S.K. Baid and D.P. Merke, Bethesda, MD, USA [free text] .................................. 585

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

MRI Findings and Genotype Analysis in Patients with Childhood Onset Growth Hormone Deficiency - Correlation with
Severity of Hypopituitarism

A. Zimmermann, J.-P. Schenk, P. Grigorescu Sido, R. Pfäffle, C. Lazea, T. Zimmermann, U. Heinrich, M.M. Weber and M. Bettendorf, Mainz, Heidelberg and Leipzig, Germany and Cluj, Romania .................................. 587

Steroid Profiles in Serum by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry in Infants with Genital Hair

P. Kaplowitz and S.J. Soldin, Washington, DC, USA .............................................. 597

Weight Deficit at Birth and Turner’s Syndrome

A. Wisniewski, K. Milde, R. Stupnicki and J. Szufladowicz-Wozniak, Warsaw, Poland ........................................ 607

The Influence of Interferon-a and Combination Interferon-a and Lamivudine Therapy on Height and Weight in Children with Chronic Hepatitis B Infection

Z. Kuloğlu, A. Kansu, F. Demirçeken, Z.S. Arıcı, M. Berberoğlu, G. Öcal and N. Girgin, Ankara, Turkey ......................................... 615

Carbohydrate Metabolism Changes in Cystic Fibrosis

Á. Domínguez-García, S. Quinteíro-González, L. Peña-Quintana, L. Ramos-Macias, M. Quintana-Martel and P. Saavedra-Santana,
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain ............................. 621

PATIENT REPORTS

Growth Hormone Therapy in Progeria

A. Sadeghi-Nejad and L. Demmer, Boston, MA, USA .......................................... 633

Adrenocorticotropin-Secreting Pancreatoblastoma

G.B. Kletter, D.A. Sweetser, S.F. Wallace, R.S. Sawin, J.C. Rutledge and J.R. Geyer, Seattle, WA, Boston, MA and Missoula, MT, USA ........... 639

Successful Treatment of an Invasive Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Macroadenoma in an 8 Year-old Boy

S.A. Bowden, J.F. Sotos, C.A. Stratakis and R.J. Weil, Columbus and Cleveland, OH and Bethesda, MD, USA .............................. 643

CALENDAR ....................................... 649

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