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Susana P. Campos, MD; Margaret H. MacGillivray, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1989;143(8):942-943.

Abstract
• The influence of sex steroids on somatic growth during childhood was evaluated by reviewing linear growth characteristics of 18 agonadal patients with normal sex chromosomes. None of the heights throughout childhood and before the onset of sex steroid therapy were below 2 SDs of the mean. Based on the normal z scores of these patients, we concluded that somatic growth throughout the childhood and prepubertal years is not sex-steroid dependent.

(AJDC. 1989;143:942-943)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Buffalo and State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication February 24, 1989.

Reprint requests to Division of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, 219 Bryant St, Buffalo, NY 14222 (Dr MacGillivray).

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