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S Rastogi1, S Gupta, P K Misra
1Department of Pediatrics, King George's Medical College, Lucknow, India.
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
|April 20, 2000
Abstract:
A 13 year old girl with short stature, and retarded mental growth with coarse facies and deranged thyroid function test was initially suspected as a case of hypothyroidism and was started on thyroxine. Lack of response to treatment and on further investigations it was diagnosed as a case of pseudohypoparathyroidism. High index of suspicion and careful evaluation is important to diagnose such an entity.