Affiliation:
1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
Abstract
"This paper presents the incidence of growth failure in 44 patients for which no organic cause was discovered after investi gation. This group of patients, collectively termed failure-to-thrive, represents the sec ond largest diagnostic category of patients with growth failure admitted to a children's hospital in one year. An examination of various features of this group from a review of the medical and psychosocial histories is made and changes in growth patterns in hos pitalization and follow up are documented."
Subject
Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
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