An anchor store is the big department store at the mall. Depending on the size of the shopping center, there's often more than one and at least two, with one at either end of the property.Their large advertising budgets and wide range of desirable merchandise help anchor stores attract shoppers to the mall. Those shoppers often spend money at the anchors as well as at surrounding smaller retailers.

1 Is growth hormone deficiency in childhood commonly associated with panhypopituitarism?

2 I would like to ask why, when treating hypopituitarism, an adrenal crisis occurs if thyroid replacement is given before steroid replacement therapy? And what is the underlying mechanism? Thank you!

3 Why, in Sheehan's syndrome, is there an anterior pituitary involvement more than a posterior one?

4 Is the cyclic presence of Montgomery tubercles, where they reduce and later increase, in a nulliparous woman's breast normal? And, if so, what is the cause?

5 Does methyltestosterone, if given in a daily dose of 2.5 mg per day, cause liver cell injury or hypothalamic gonadal suppression? Can this drug be prescribed for other cases with hypothalamic hypogonadism, usually being given by intramuscular injection or implant?

6 Does IM testosterone increase levels of serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)?

7 For some time now I have been confused regarding tests for acromegaly. 1. Which is best - screening or diagnosing test in these patients? 2. Your book says the 'glucose tolerance test [GTT] is diagnostic'. Does this mean GTT with growth hormone (GH) evaluation or that a patient who is clinically an acromegalic with a positive GTT (diabetic) can be labelled as acromegalic? Incidentally, a lot of people around me are similarly confused and others have been following the latter saying that 'Kumar and Clark say so'. Please clarify.

8 Does acromegaly cause depression?

9 1. Breathlessness can be a feature of acromegaly. What are the characteristics of this breathlessness? 2. If a patient presents with headaches due to acromegaly, what are the likely characteristics of these headaches?

10 Why does hypothyroidism cause a transudative pleural effusion?