Endocrine Abstracts

Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a rare syndrome. It was first reported by Silver, Russel and al, who described children with low birth weight, postnatal statural delay, peculiar facies and asymmetry of the body. We report the case of two sibling children born to non-consanguineous parents, admitted to our level for the exploration of severe staturo-weight retardation in relation to marked intrauterine growth retardation. The first child is a 04-year-old girl, born at term. It...

The adrenal enzyme deficiency leads pseudopuberty in later diagnosis or in the absence of treatment. The existence of testicular enlargement in boys can be related to adrenal inclusion. We report six observations about this pathology: Two brothers of 2 and 12 years old with 11β-hydroxylase and four patients of three, five, height and ten years old with 21-hydroxylase deficiency. The reson of consultation was the development of the penis and pubic hair with a testiculary e...

Paraganglioma is a tumor developed in expenses of the sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system. It is a rare pathology (prevalency 1 for 30 000). These are situated on the basis of skull, at the level of neck, in the thorax and the belly. Some paraganglioma are functional and secrete cathecolamines and others are diagnosed after surgery in the histological study of the operating piece. Through a retrospective study concerning height patients having paraganglioma extra sur...