CROCCO , M

PurposeChildhood overweight and obesity associated with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome represent the new global pandemic and the main causative factors for dysglycemia, prediabetes, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). Predictors, such as HOMA-IR, HOMA-beta%, and QUICKI lack specific reference values in children. OGTT is a gold...

Background Sellar/parasellar lesions have been studied in the adult and paediatric age range, but during the transition age their epidemiology, clinical manifestations, management and treatment outcomes have been poorly investigated. Materials and methods An Italian multicentre cohort study, in which hospital records of patients with diagnosis...

Purpose Our aim was to determine the main risk factors related to the occurrence of permanent alopecia in childhood medulloblastoma (MB) survivors. Methods We retrospectively analyzed the clinical features of all consecutive MB survivors treated at our institute. We divided the patients into 3 groups depending on the craniospinal irradiation...