Lemierre syndrome in a 5-month-old male infant: Case report and review of the pediatric literature.

Objectives: To report, to the best of our knowledge, the youngest patient with Lemierre syndrome.

Design: Descriptive case report with review of the pediatric literature.

Setting: Pediatric intensive care unit in a tertiary referral hospital.

Interactions between GH, IGF-I, glucocorticoids, and thyroid hormones during skeletal growth.

Linear growth occurs during development and the childhood years until epiphyseal fusion occurs. This process results from endochondral ossification in the growth plates of long bones and is regulated by systemic hormones and paracrine or autocrine factors. The major regulators of developmental and childhood growth are GH, IGF-I, glucocorticoids, and thyroid hormone.