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Failure to Thrive: eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

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Overview: Failure to thrive (FTT) is both a descriptive term for various entities and a diagnosis. It is defined as a significant interruption in the expected rate of growth during early childhood. Because sequential measurements of growth ...

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