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DAVILA YAMAL, Jennifer Wendy  e  RADA CUENTAS, Jaime. Agennesis of gland thyroid: a case report and review. Rev. bol. ped. [online]. 2016, vol.55, n.1, pp.15-22. ISSN 1024-0675.

The congenital hypothyroidism is the most frequent endocrinological disease in pediatrics and in turn it is the first reason of mental delay prevenible. The precocious diagnosis establishes by means of the screening neonatal of the levels of hormone shot - stimulant (TSH), because only a small percentage of children presents clinical symptomatology in this group etario. There is described the clinical case of a girl attended in the Bolivian Dutch Hospital who was diagnosed congenital to 31 days of life and treatment of substitution was begun with levothyroxina sodium, to avoid the neurological later(posterior) sequels. One presents the case to highlight the importance of the precocious diagnosis and the of implementing the screening neonatal in universal form.

Palavras-chave : congenital hypothyroidism; thyroid agenesis; levothyroxine.

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