Associations between pituitary imaging abnormalities and clinical and biochemical phenotypes in children with congenital growth hormone deficiency: Data from an international observational study

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 283-292

  Deal, Cheri ^a   Hasselmann, Caroline ^a   Pfäffle, Roland W ^b   Zimmermann, Alan G ^d   Quigley, Charmian A ^d   Child, Christopher J ^d   Shavrikova, Elena P ^f   Cutler Jr , Gordon B ^e   Blum, Werner F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c LILLY DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

^d ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^e Gordon Cutler Consultancy   (United States)

^f PSI   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ectopic posterior pituitary; Growth hormone deficiency; Growth hormone therapy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies; Pituitary imaging abnormality; Septo optic dysplasia

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY APLASIA; PITUITARY HYPOPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTOOPTIC DYSPLASIA; SEX RATIO; TREATMENT RESPONSE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECTOPIC POSTERIOR PITUITARY; GENE MUTATION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY STALK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT STATURE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DWARFISM, PITUITARY; FEMALE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY GLAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPTO-OPTIC DYSPLASIA; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84879415641     PISSN: 16632818     EISSN: 16632826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000350829     Document Type: Article

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