Short stature resident survival guide
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Eman Alademi, M.D.[2]
Overview
Causes
Common Causes
Systemic disorders with secondary effects on growth[1][2][3]:
- Undernutrition [4]
- Gastrointestinal disease[11][12][13][14]
- Immunologic disease[23]
Endocrine causes[27] of growth failure
Genetic diseases with primary effects on growth[35], Turner syndrome, short stature homeobox gene (SHOX gene) variants[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44], Prader-Willi syndrome[45][46][47][48][49], Noonan syndrome[50], Silver-Russell syndrome[51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61] [62],
Skeletal dysplasias/growth plate abnormalities[63][64][65][66][67][68]
pathologic short stature[69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76]
Diagnosis
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Do's
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References
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