Wakamoto H, Miyazaki M, Tatsumi K, Amino N
Department of Paediatrics, Yawatahama City General Hospital, Ehime, Japan.
Arch Dis Child. 1995 May;72(5):439-40. doi: 10.1136/adc.72.5.439.
The effects of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) deficiency on thyroid development was examined using ultrasonography in a child with congenital isolated TSH deficiency. Ultrasound revealed the thyroid gland was one sixth normal volume, suggesting that TSH plays an important part in thyroid growth, but not a critical role in differentiation.