… We describe 65 children (32F, 33M) with psychosocial short stature from 51 families. …
features leading to the suspicion of psychosocial short stature; 54% abnormal eating pattern, 42% …

… Psychosocial short stature (PSS) is a characteristic syndrome … -IGF-I axis in a child with
psychosocial short stature. J Pediatr … psychosocial short stature. Eur J Pediatr 2002; 161:250-254. …

… The classification of children with psychosocial short stature on the basis of appetite disturbance
was supported by our auxological data with specific differences in body proportions and …

… Recently, however, psychosocial short stature has been the description used by most …
of our experience with a boy with psychosocial short stature who has been followed up for …

The advent of biosynthetic growth hormone (GH) has been accompanied by a transformation
in the clinical management of youths with short stature. An important – if not always …

Background. Changes in the diagnosis of endocrine-based growth disorders and the advent
of biosynthetic growth hormone have altered the long-standing policy of treating only those …

Before 1985, cadaveric pituitaries constituted the only source of growth hormone (GH) for
the endocrine management of growth failure and short stature (SS). Because supplies of the …

… Such growth failure, without organic etiology but with characteristic behavioral features, has
subsequently been called ‘psychosocial short stature’. Evidence is accumulating to suggest …

… In our series of 65 children with psychosocial short stature, 34 were subjected to repeated
endocrine assessment either during a 3-week hospital admission with restricted parental …

… Aim: To determine whether children with psychosocial short stature attain their genetic … by
a multidisciplinary team as having psychosocial short stature. All the children had had some …