ABSTRACT
19 patients have consulted for statural delay of weight between June 1980 and December 1982. The age of the patients was between 13 and 20 years. They were between 1,30 m and 1,48 m tall. Their weight between 20 and 43 Kg. - The etiological checkup show: a constitutional statural delays with simple delay of puberty, a prolactine adenom, a turner syndrome, an insipid diabete, 2 hypophysis deficiencies, a chronic pyelonephrite by association of a syndrome of the unilateral junction to a bilateral vesicuo-ureteral reflux. 11 coeliac sicknesses whose positive.diagnostic, was established by jejunal biopsy and test to diet without gluten. Due to the predominance of this etiology and the presence In the patients of a radiological endocrine note [bone age less than the statural age] we did a complete endocrinien checkup on these patients with one test of TRH which showed an exaggerated repose in TSH. It seems to us that this THR test could be an important element for checkup and diagnostic of coeliac sickness