Journal:
:international journal of pediatrics
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mohammad reza alaei associated professor of pediatric endocrinology and metabolism, shahid beheshti university of medical science, tehran, iran.
hedyeh saneifard assisstant professor of pediatric endocrinology and metabolism, shahid beheshti university of medical science,tehran, iran.
marjan shakiba 2assisstant professor of pediatric endocrinology and metabolism, shahid beheshti university of medical science,tehran, iran.
hossein shabani mirzaei assistant professor of pediatric endocrinology and metabolism, tehran university of medical science, tehran, iran.
background short stature is a manifestation of a wide variety of conditions that some of which may be amenable to timely treatment and a suboptimal growth rate may be an early marker pointing to the cause of growth retardation. this study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic utility of growth rate in differential diagnosis of children with short stature. materials and methods all children ...