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Infants & children with hypothyrodism usually manifest variable skeletal abnormality. These
features are the delay in longitudinal bone growth, the delay in epiphyseal maturation (=delay in
bone age), the disturbances in bone mineralization and charateristic multiple stippled epiphysis
(cretenoid epiphyseal dysgenesis). But many pediatrician have only concerned about the delay in
epiphyseal maturation.
Epiphyseal dysgenesis can be used a marker to find out the begining... |
