ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: 46,XY disorder of sexual development can cause clinical spectrum varying from complete female phenotype to isolated micropenis. However, the most common reasons are androgen synthesis and resistance, choromosome abnormalities, testicular dysgenesis, steroid synthesis defects, it is usually idiopathic. The accurate and differential diagnosis is crucial in respect of treatment, monitoring, sex determination, surgical correction. Moreover, it sometimes can be medica...

Background: Accurate and differential diagnosis of preococious puberty (PP) have some important challenges. Many parameters have used to diagnose pubertal diseases so far. However LH-RH stimulation test is considered as a gold standard procedure, ıt has some difficulties in practise.Objective: We aimed to set a newly proposed clinical and laboratory finding-based diagnostic scoring in the differential diagnosis of preoccious puberty and premature te...

Objective: There have no been studies enough about thyroid volumes of obese and adolescent children. In this study, we purposed comparing of thyroid volumes in respect of anthropometric, biochemical, metabolic parameters in following groups: Overweight, obese, morbid obese, and healthy children.Method: Two groups were compared: The first group consisted of 190 children whose BMIs are above the 85th percentile. The second group was 90 children with normal...