Endocrine Abstracts

Congenital hypopituitarism is a rare disease, occurring sporadically in the vast majority of cases, that is found more frequently in males. We are presenting the case of a 19 year old that addressed our clinic because of short stature and lack of development of secondary sexual traits. During the clinical assessment we found his height to be 146 cm, corresponding to -4.78 SDs, Tanner stage of pubertal development 1 and lack of apocrine axillary odor. The patient was inapetent ...