美国印第安纳波利斯消息:一位内分泌学家指出,常规甲状腺试验并不是一个简易衡量甲状腺激素水平是否是使“体质性身材矮小”儿童的生长有效的因素。得克萨斯州达拉斯Baylor学院医学中心内科的助理医师Samuel Marynick在此地对参加内分泌学会年会的代表们说,甚至在极度发育迟缓的儿童,常规甲状腺试验也能显示甲状腺激素水平“完全正常”,从而“使人错误地估计病人具有正常的甲状腺机能”。 Marynick说,内分泌病情的检查还须包括促甲状腺素(TSH)水平的检测。由于生长 Indianapolis, United States: An endocrinologist pointed out that the conventional thyroid test is not a simple measure of thyroid hormone levels is to make “constitutional short stature,” the growth of children effective factor. Samuel Marynick, an assistant physician at the Baylor College Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, here, told delegates attending the annual meeting of the Society of Endocrine Societies that routine thyroid testing can show “perfect normality” in thyroid hormone levels even in critically stunting children and “ It is wrong to estimate the patient has normal thyroid function. ” Marynick said endocrine disease tests must also include the detection of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels. Due to growth