L to short stature in an / a teenager is a situation that may present to medical family when a / a boy or girl 14 years passes from pediatric consultation. After ruling out any chronic diseases or chromosome by a basic analysis, we will carve the patient, relating this size to the size of their parents and calculate target height and bone age determination by X-ray left wrist, watch your speed growth (centimeters per year growing) and sexual development.
With all these data, we will conclude that it is likely that his stature is a normal variant, and within it, which is a familiar stature or growth retardation and development.
With this diagnosis can help our brand new patient, along with counseling, or simply waiting for the pubertal growth spurt or starting it on hormones.
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