Case 38-1975

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Presentation of Case First admission. A seven-and-a-half-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of diabetes insipidus and short stature.She was born of a normal pregnancy and delivery, weighing 3.27 kg (25th percentile). Her initial physical development was considered normal, and she was well until 18 months of age, when there was a brief episode of high fever and delirium, without convulsions. At the age of two years her parents noticed that she was not growing; her height was in the 10th percentile, and her weight less than the 10th percentile. At about that time polydipsia and polyuria . . .