Volume 1 - Tables of Contents

Number 4, December 1985

Feature Articles

• ABUSE OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DWARFISM: AN UPDATE
  Charles Annecillo, ScD; John Money, PhD

• The Use of Estrogens to Inhibit and Stimulate Growth
  Jürgen R. Bierich, MD

• Support Groups for Families of Children with Growth Problems
  Judith G. Hall, MD

Reviews & Comments

• Effect of GH-Releasing Factor on GH Release in 8 Children With Radiation-Induced GH Deficiency  
• Fibrochondrogenesis - A Lethal, Autosomal Recessive Chondrodysplasia With Distinctive Cartilage Morphology  
• Late-Onset Adrenal Hyperplasia in Hirsutism  
• Pituitary Dwarfism in a Patient With Circulating Abnormal GH Polymers  
• Skeletal Age Changes in Puberty  
• Use of Plasma SmC/IGF-1 Measurements to Monitor the Response to Nutritional Repletion in Malnourished Patients

Number 3, September 1985

Feature Articles

• GENETIC FORMS OF GH-DEFICIENT AND GH-DEFICIENT-LIKE DWARFISM
  David L. Rimoin, MD, PhD

• The Genes Controlling Growth Hormone Production, Secretion, and Action
  John S. Parks, MD, PhD

• Special Report: Pituitary Growth Hormone and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Reviews & Comments

• Growth Hormone Secretory Dynamics in Turner's Syndrome  
• Growth Patterns in the Hemoglobinopathies: (I) Growth Patterns by Age and Sex in Children With Sickle Cell Disease and (II) Growth and Sexual Maturation in Thalassemia Major
• Infants With Birth Weights Less Than 1,001 g: Survival, Growth, and Development  
• Ketoconazole in the Management of Precocious Puberty Not Responsive to GnRH-Analogue Therapy  
• Late-Onset Adrenal Steroid 3B-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Deficiency: (I) A Cause of Hirsutism in Pubertal and Postpubertal Women  
• Micropenis: A Report on 14 Patients Reared as Girls  

Number 2, September 1985

Feature Articles

• NUTRITION, GROWTH, AND GROWTH FAILURE
  Fima Lifshitz, MD

• Problems in Assessing the Efficacy of Growth-Promoting Substances: The Role of Height Prediction
  James M. Tanner, MD

• Malnutrition: Definition, Incidence, and Effect on Growth
  David Seckler, PhD

Reviews & Comments

• Bone Marrow Transplantation in the Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome (Mucopolysacchandosls VI)  
• Fear of Obesity: A Cause of Short Stature and Delayed Puberty  
• Growth Retardation in Crohn's Disease: The Merits of Aggressive Nutritional Therapy
• Short Stature and Celiac Disease: A Relationship to Consider Even in Patients With No Gastrointestinal Tract Symptoms  
• Studies of Marginal Zinc Deprivation in Rhesus Monkeys: (IV) Growth of Infants in the First Year and (V) Fetal and Infant Skeletal Effects  

Number 1, March 1985

Feature Articles

• GROWTH HORMONE PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: A REVIEW
  Alan D. Rogol, MD, PhD; Robert M. Blizzard, MD

• The Incidence of Growth Hormone Deficiency: Does Anyone Know?
  Robert M. Blizzard, MD

• The Psychosocial Aspects of Growth Delay
  Heather J. Dean, MD

Reviews & Comments

• Comparison of Physiologic and Pharmacologic Assessment of GH Secretion  
• Effect of Small But Sustained Elevations in Circulating Growth Hormone on Fuel Metabolism in GH Deficiency  
• Height and Weight Status of Indo-Chinese Refugee Children  
• Laron Type Dwarfism (Hereditary Somatomedin Deficiency): A Review  
• Neurosecretory Dysfunction: A Treatable Cause of Short Stature  
• Precocious Puberty After Hypothalamic and Pituitary Irradiation in Young Children  
• Pseudopituitary Dwarfism Due to Resistance to Somatomedin: A New Syndrome
• Report of the Conference on Uses and Possible Uses of Biosynthetic hGH  
• Use of a Two-Site IRMA for GH in Identifying Children With GH-Dependent Growth Failure  

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