Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a worldwide public health problem and has been recently documented as a cause of neuroendocrine dysfunction. It has been shown that hypopituitarism may develop nearly 10–20% of the TBI patients, and most common pituitary hormone deficiency after TBI is growth hormone deficiency (GHD). To date no study has evaluated the relation between isolated maxillofacial fractures and pituitary dysfunction. Therefore we aimed to investigat...