Clinical Cases of Delayed Growth in Children and Adolescents of the Astrakhan Region

Abstract

The article describes clinical examples of growth retardation in children and adolescents of various origins, taken from the case histories of patients who were examined in the endocrinology department of the Regional Children's Clinical Hospital in the city of Astrakhan from 1994 to 2017. These clinical cases are a striking example of the variety of causes of growth retardation in children. It is necessary to direct pediatricians and other specialists to an earlier start of examination of children with short stature, since not only the prognosis of the patient's final growth, but also the patient's life, may depend on timely differential diagnosis and the correctly chosen therapeutic tactics.