Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Delayed onset of puberty is quite a common presentation in adolescent endocrine clinics, and the most common cause, particularly in boys is considered to be constitutional delay of growth and maturation. In girls, however, it is more likely that there is a significant underlying problem.Aim: To review the aetiology of pubertal delay in female patients referred to a single tertiary centre.Methodology: All female patien...

Introduction: Juvenile thyrotoxicosis is treated with anti-thyroid drugs using a block and replace or dose titration regimen. There is a high rate of relapse and majority require definitive treatment with surgical or radio-iodine ablation. Increasingly radio-iodine therapy is being used in children, particularly in the USA, but experience with this is limited in the UK. In our unit we have an experienced paediatric thyroid surgeon and we have always carried out surgery in chil...