منابع مشابه
Short stature--the role of intelligence in psychosocial adjustment.
Short children are often described as having psychosocial problems. These reports may be inaccurate as former studies have relied largely on parental report. Psychosocial functioning of short children was assessed with the aim of using them and their peers as informants. Twenty two short (mean (SD) height -2.53 (0.28) SD score) prepubertal children aged between 6 and 11 years were recruited fro...
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Metaphyseal growth arrest lines are seen in children who experience significant physical stress such as infection or malnutrition over a sufficient period of time. These lines have not been reported previously in children with psychosocial short stature (PSS). Two boys and a girl with PSS with metaphyseal growth arrest lines on skeletal radiographs at the time of maximal stress in their homes a...
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OBJECTIVE Our objective was to report and describe a case of psychosocial short stature in an adolescent girl with psychotic features. Psychosocial short stature is a rare condition in which emotional stress or deprivation in childhood profoundly reduces growth, leading to persistent short stature. This disorder is variably known as psychosocial dwarfism, hyperphagic short stature or maternal d...
متن کاملSyndromes with short stature
At present, factors that have been recognized as being able to influence growth are: nutritional, physical, chemical, psychological and genetic. The causes of short stature are numerous, with about 90% of cases classified as Idiopathic Short Stature and divided into 2 types familial short stature and constitutional short stature. Part of the population with growth disorders are SGA newborns (10...
متن کاملShort Stature in Children
Accurate serial measurements of height and weight and an accurate record of growth are essential cornponents of the clinical evaluation of all children. Maintenance of a growth chart allows comparison of an individual child with a large population in terms of both percentile ranking and the determination of ‘ ‘ height age’ ‘ : the chronologic age at which the patient’s height falls on the 50th ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-198404001-00021