Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: To determine long-term functional outcome following traumatic brain injury (TBI) in childhood.Patients: Longitudinal study of 49 participants with TBI (21 mild, 28 moderate/severe TBI) and 16 healthy controls matched for age, gender and socioeconomic status. Age at TBI (median (range)) 11.8 (1–16) years; 17 were prepubertal, 16 peripubertal, 16 postpubertal. Age at study 19.7 (10–26) years, time post TBI 8.6 (5.8–10.8) years. A...