ESPE Abstracts

Growth retardation is frequent reason of consultation in endocrinology department.Its investigation is guided by weight and statural curves, as well as growth velocity, the breakage of which should alert us to an acquired tumoral pathology.The etiologies are grouped into pathological and common etiologies.We report the results of study of 156 children presenting with short stature in the endocrinology department of Beni Messous where we found that the proportion of boys to girls was 1.78.Average age at the presentation of all patients was 10.60.Pathological etiologies accounted for the majority (52.56%), with growth hormone deficiency predominating in 43% of cases, while 47.43% of children presented with variants of normal, with familial short stature predominating, followed by delay of growth and puberty and intra uterine growth retardation.