JOURNAL OF

PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

VOLUME 21, NUMBER 3

MARCH 2008

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

EDITORIAL

 

 

 

Performance Enhancing Endocrinology: The Arbitrary Line of Acceptability

 

 

 

S.A. Rivkees and M.R. Mercurio, New Haven, CT, USA [free text]

197

 

 

 

 

 

 

REVIEW

 

 

 

Pubertal Development in Girls Born Small for Gestational Age

 

 

 

M.I. Hernández and V. Mericq, Santiago, Chile [free text]

201

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMAGES IN PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY

 

 

 

Short Stature and Metaphyeal Dysplasia Due to Cartilage-Hair Hypoplasia

 

 

 

L.S. Conwell, P. Hermanns and A. Zankl, Brisbane, Australia and Freiburg, Germany [free text]

209

 

 

 

 

 

 

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

 

 

 

A Study of Anthropomorphic and Biochemical Characteristics in Girls

with Central Precocious Puberty and Thelarche Variant

 

 

 

P.-H. Su, S.-L. Wang, J.-Y. Chen, S.-J. Chen and J.-C. Ke, Taichung and Zhunan, Taiwan

213

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diagnoses of Overweight Children and Adolescents Seen in a Pediatric

Endocrinology Clinic

 

 

 

J. Lockman and J. Steelman, Baltimore, MD and Nashville, TN, USA

221

 

 

 

 

 

 

Short-term High Dietary Fructose Intake had No Effects on Insulin Sensitivity

and Secretion or Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Healthy, Obese Adolescents

 

 

 

A.L. Sunehag, G. Toffolo, M. Campioni, D.M. Bier and M.W. Haymond, Houston, TX, USA and Padua, Italy

225

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thyroid Function in 76 Sick Preterm Infants 30-36 Weeks:

Results from a Longitudinal Study

 

 

 

A. Carrascosa, P. Ruiz-Cuevas, M. Clemente, S. Salcedo and J. Almar, Barcelona, Spain

237

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cord Blood Thyroxine and Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Screening for

Congenital Hypothyroidism: How Useful Are They?

 

 

 

J.D. Hardy, R. Zayed, I. Doss and G.S. Dhatt, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE

245

 

 

 

 

 

 

Persistently Raised Thyroid Stimulating Hormone in Adequately Treated

Congenital Hypothyroidism on Long-term Follow-up

 

 

 

C. Kara, G. Öcal, M. Berberoğlu, Z. Şıklar and P. Adıyaman, Ankara, Turkey

251

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is Testosterone and Estrogen Priming Prior to Clonidine Useful in the

Evaluation of the Growth Hormone Status of Short Peripubertal Children?

 

 

 

S. Molina, M. Paoli, N. Camacho, G. Arata-Bellabarba and R. Lanes, Mérida and Caracas, Venezuela

257

 

 

 

 

 

 

Response to Growth Hormone Treatment and Final Height in Noonan Syndrome

in a Large Cohort of Patients in the KIGS Database

 

 

 

R. Raaijmakers, C. Noordam, G. Karagiannis, J.W. Gregory, N.T. Hertel, I. Sipilä and B.J. Otten, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Stockholm, Sweden, Cardiff, UK, Odense, Denmark and Helsinki, Finland

267

 

 

 

 

 

 

PATIENT REPORT LETTERS

 

 

 

Sexual Precocity Associated with an Abdominal Tumor in an African Boy

 

 

 

H.H. Bode, W. Schimana, B. Swai and U. Bode, Sydney, Australia, Moshi, Tanzania and Bonn, Germany

275

 

 

 

 

 

 

Growth Hormone Improves Growth Rate and Preserves Renal Function

in Dent Disease

 

 

 

S. Sheffer-Babila, M. Chandra and P.W. Speiser, New York, NY, USA

279

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEETING REPORT

 

 

 

The 7th ESPE Growth Plate Working Group Symposium – EUROGROP, June 27th 2007, Helsinki, Finland

 

 

 

R.L. Miclea, M. Phillip, L. Sävendahl and J.M. Wit, Leiden, The Netherlands, Petah Tikva, Israel and Stockholm, Sweden

287

 

 

 

 

 

 

CALENDAR

295

 

 

 

 

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