[Diagnosis and treatment of pituitary dwarfism].

the past. Most of the patients who had received radiation therapy showed high values , thus indicating that conventional radiation therapy is incomplete in most cases. In patients who had received surgical treatment , relatively low values were observed; however, only one-third of them showed values below 5 mi2g/ml. Among these patients, those whose values were below 10 mteg/ml, showed no clinical symptoms of acromegalic activity, and in most cases no increase of GH level was observed in response to insulin hypoglycemia . In these cases, the total daily GH secretion may be within normal range and they may need