Research interests include
1. Genetics and tumourigenesis of pituitary, adrenal, and pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma tumours
2. Metabolic effects of endocrine tumours

1. Violetis O, Sfakiotaki M, Spyroglou A, Pissadaki E, Iliakopoulos K, Syntzanaki EK, Konstantakou P, Chouliara E, Nastos C, Dafnios N, Simeakis G, Bramis K, Myoteri D, Mastorakos G, Xekouki P, Alexandraki KI. Predictive Factors of Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma (PTMC). Medicina (Kaunas). 2025;61(10):1800.
2. Tripolitsioti P, Spyroglou A, Violetis O, Konstantakou P, Chouliara E, Betsi G, Iliakopoulos K, Memi E, Bramis K, Kolomodi D, Xekouki P, Konstadoulakis M, Mastorakos G, Alexandraki KI. The Prevalence of Second Neoplasms in Patients with Non-Aldosterone Producing Adrenocortical Lesions. Int J Mol Sci. 2025;26(20):10167.
3. Petrakis I, Drosataki E, Lygerou D, Antonakis A, Kydonaki K, Mitrakos M, Pleros C, Sfakiotaki M, Xekouki P, Stylianou K. Familial MEN1 Syndrome with Atypical Renal Features and a Coexisting CLDN16 Variant: A Case Series. J Clin Med. 2025;14(15):5447.
4. Binas DA, Betsi G, Economopoulos T, Mytareli C, Bourgioti C, Xekouki P, Angelousi A, Matsopoulos GK. A novel approach for classifying patients with adrenal tumors based on decision support systems and artificial intelligence. Hormones (Athens). 2025;24(3):593-603
5. Kavvalou E, Krasagakis K, Chlouverakis G, Xekouki P, Daraki V, Kouvidou C, Lagoudaki E, Krüger-Krasagakis SE. Association of statins, gliptins, and antipsychotics with bullous pemphigoid: A case-control study in the Cretan population. J Dermatol. 2025;52(2):291-298.
6. P Xekouki, V Venetsanaki, G Kyriakopoulos, A Angelousi3, G Kaltsas. Molecular developments in parasellar tumors and potential therapeutic implications. Εndocrine Reviews 2024;45(6):880-911
7. G Betsi, P Goulia, S Sandhu, P Xekouki. Puberty suppression in adolescents with gender dysphoria: an emerging issue with multiple implications. Frontiers in Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2024; 14;15:1309904.
8. Krystallenia I. Alexandraki, Ariadni Spyroglou, Paraskevi Xekouki, Konstantinos I. Bramis, Georgios Kyriakopoulos, Konstantinos Barkas, Ioannis S. Papanikolaou, George Mastorakos, Manousos Konstadoulakis. When rare diseases crisscross within the same patient: von Hippel-Lindau and type 1 gastric neuroendocrine tumor.” Hormones Athens 2024 Apr 15.
9. I Petrakis, M Sfakiotaki, M Bitsori, E Drosataki, K Dermitzaki, Ch Pleros, A Androvitsanea, D
Samonakis, A Sertedaki, E Galanakis, P Xekouki, K Stylianou. The phenotypic variability associated with Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1B genetic defects poses challenges in both diagnosis and therapy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences Int J Mol Sci. 2024; 22;25(8):4552.
10. Xekouki P, Konstantinidou A, Tatsi C, Sertedaki A, Settas N, Loutradis D, Chrousos GP, Kanaka-Gantenbein C, Dacou-Voutetakis C, Voutetakis A. HNF1A gene mutations and premature ovarian failure (POF): evidence from a clinical paradigm combining MODY 3 and POF. Hormones (Athens) 2024; 23(2):345-350
11. Ntotsikas K, Lazarioti S, Daraki V, Drakos E, Tsakalomatis PN, Syntzanaki EK, Moustakis N, Marinis AI, Salapatas-Gkinis A, Xekouki P, Vakis A, Tsitsipanis C. Thyroglobulin as a Rapid and Cost-Effective Biomarker for Diagnosis of Thyroid Carcinoma Brain Metastasis: A Case Report of a Patient with Metastatic Hurthle Cell Thyroid Carcinoma. Am J Case Rep. 2023;24:e939025.
12. Melpomeni Moustaki, Stavroula A. Paschou, Elena C. Vakali, Paraskevi Xekouki , Georgia Ntali, Evanthia Kassi , Melpomeni Peppa, Theodora Psaltopoulou, Marinella Tzanela, Andromachi Vryonidou. Secondary Diabetes Mellitus in Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas. Submitted for publication in Endocrine 2023;82(3):467-479
13. Melpomeni Moustaki, Stavroula A. Paschou, Paraskevi Xekouki, Kalliopi Kotsa Melpomeni Peppa, Theodora Psaltopoulou, Sophia Kalantaridou, Andromachi Vryonidou. Secondary diabetes mellitus in acromegaly. Endocrine. 2023;81(1):1-15
14. Bouki K, Venetsanaki V, Chrysoulaki M, Pateromichelaki A, Betsi G , Daraki V, Sbyrakis N, Spanakis K, Bertsias G, Sidiropoulos PI, Xekouki P. Primary adrenal insufficiency due to bilateral adrenal hemorrhage-adrenal infarction in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome: case presentation and review of the literature. Hormones 2023;22(3):521-531
15. Vamvoukaki R, Chrysoulaki M, Betsi G, Xekouki P. Pituitary Tumorigenesis-Implications for Management. Medicina, 2023;59(4):812.
16. Papageorgiou A, Efthymiou V, Giannouli A, Xekouki P, Kranioti CC, Chrousos GP. Comparison of Hospital Consultation and Summer Camp Lifestyle Intervention Programs for Sustained Body Weight Loss in Overweight/Obese Greek Children. Children 2022; 9(1): 86
17. Rachel Wurth, Abhishek Jha, Crystal Kamilaris, Anthony J Gill, Nicola Poplawski, Paraskevi Xekouki, Martha M Quezado, Karel Pacak, Constantine A Stratakis, Fady Hannah-Shmouni. A case of Carney triad complicated by renal cell carcinoma and a germline SDHA pathogenic variant. Endocrinol Diabetes Metab Case Rep 2021; 20-0170 (
18. Krystallenia I. Alexandraki, Paraskevi Xekouki. Medical therapy of craniopharyngiomas. European Endocrinology, 2021; 17(2), pp. 121–132
19. Angelousi A, Mytareli C, Xekouki P, Kassi E, Barkas K, Grossman A, Kaltsas G. Diabetes insipidus secondary to sellar/parasellar lesions. J Neuroendocrinol. 2021;33(3): e12954.
20. Requirement of FAT and DCHS protocadherins during hypothalamic-pituitary development. Lodge EJ, Xekouki P, Silva TS, Kochi C, Longui CA, Faucz FR, Santambrogio A, Mills JL, Pankratz N, Lane J, Sosnowska D, Hodgson T, Patist AL, Francis-West P, Helmbacher F, Stratakis C, Andoniadou CL. JCI Insight. 2020;5(23): e134310.
21. Tatsi C, Xekouki P, Nioti O, Bachrach B, Belyavskaya E, Lyssikatos C, Stratakis CA. A novel mutation in the glucocorticoid receptor gene as a cause of severe glucocorticoid resistance complicated by hypertensive encephalopathy. J Hypertens. 2019;37(7):1475-1481
22. Lodge EJ, Santambrogio A, Russell JP, Xekouki P, Jacques TS, Johnson RL, Thavaraj S, Bornstein SR, Andoniadou CL. Homeostatic and tumourigenic activity of SOX2+ pituitary stem cells is controlled by the LATS/YAP/TAZ cascade. Elife. 2019;26;8:e43996.
23. Xekouki P, Lodge EJ, Matschke J, Santambrogio A, Apps JR, Sharif A, Jacques TS, Aylwin S, Prevot V, Li R, Flitsch J, Bornstein SR, Theodoropoulou M, Andoniadou CL. Non-secreting pituitary tumours characterised by enhanced expression of YAP/TAZ. Endocr Relat Cancer. 2019;26(1):215-225
24. Xekouki P, Brennand A, Whitelaw B, Pacak K, Stratakis CA. The 3PAs: An Update on the Association of Pheochromocytomas, Paragangliomas, and Pituitary Tumors. Horm Metab Res. 2019;51(7):419-436.
25. Accordi ED, Xekouki P, Azevedo B, de Alexandre RB, Frasson C, Gantzel SM, Papadakis GZ, Angelousi A, Stratakis CA Sotomaior VS, Faucz FR. Familiar Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Large Brazilian Family Is Not Associated with Succinate Dehydrogenase Defects. Eur Thyroid J. 2016;5(2):94-9.
26. Barmpari ME, Savvidis C, Dede AD, Markogiannakis H, Dikoglou C, Xekouki P, Stratakis CA, Manouras A, Malaktari-Skarantavou S. Adrenal malignant melanoma masquerading as a pheochromocytoma in a patient with a history of a multifocal papillary and medullary thyroid carcinoma. Hormones (Athens) 2016 ;15(2):283-90.
27. Gourgari E, Lodish M, Keil M, Sinaii N, Turkbey E, Lyssikatos C, Nesterova M, de la Luz Sierra M, Xekouki P, Khurana D, Ten S, Dobs A, Stratakis CA. Bilateral Adrenal Hyperplasia as a Possible Mechanism for Hyperandrogenism in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2016; 101(9):3353-60
28. Sertedaki A, Markou A, Vlachakis D, Kossida S, Campanac E, Hoffman DA, Sierra ML, Xekouki P, Stratakis CA, Kaltsas G, Piaditis GP, Chrousos GP, Charmandari E. Functional characterization of two novel germline mutations of the KCNJ5 gene in hypertensive patients without primary aldosteronism but with ACTH-dependent aldosterone hypersecretion. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2016;85(6):845-851.
29. Osinga TE, Xekouki P, Nambuba J, Faucz FR, de la Luz Sierra M, Links TP, Kema IP, Adams K, Stratakis CA, van der Horst-Schrivers AN, Pacak K. SDH Subunit Mutation Status in Saliva: Genetic Testing in Patients with Pheochromocytoma. Horm Metab Res. 2016; 48:247-50.
30. Janssen I, Xekouki P, Nambuba J, Chen CC, Herscovitch P, Millo CM, Schrump DS, Pacak K. Rapidly Growing Chest Wall Mass in a Case of Sporadic Metastatic Paraganglioma: Imaging With 4 Different PET Radiopharmaceuticals. Clin Nucl Med. 2016;41(5):399-400
31. Pathak A, Stewart DR, Faucz FR, Xekouki P, Bass S, Vogt A, Zhang X, Boland J, Yeager M, Loud JT, Nathanson KL, McGlynn KA, Stratakis CA, Greene MH, Mirabello L. Rare inactivating PDE11A variants associated with testicular germ cell tumors. Endocr Relat Cancer. 2015 ;22(6):909
32. Boikos SA*, Xekouki P*, Fumagalli E, Faucz FR, Raygada M, Szarek E, Ball E, Kim SY, Miettinen M, Helman LJ, Carney JA, Pacak K, Stratakis CA. Carney triad can be (rarely) associated with germline succinate dehydrogenase defects. Eur J Hum Genet. 2016;24:569-73
33. Correa R, Zilbermint M, Berthon A, Espiard S, Batsis M, Papadakis GZ, Xekouki P, Lodish MB, Bertherat J, Faucz FR, Stratakis CA. The ARMC5 gene shows extensive genetic variance in primary macronodular adrenocortical hyperplasia. Eur J Endocrinol. 2015 ;173(4):435-40.
34. Zilbermint M*, Xekouki P*, Faucz FR, Berthon A, Gkourogianni A, Schernthaner-Reiter MH, Batsis M, Sinaii N, Quezado MM, Merino M, Hodes A, Abraham SB, Libé R, Assié G, Espiard S, Drougat L, Ragazzon B, Davis A, Gebreab SY, Neff R, Kebebew E, Bertherat J, Lodish MB, Stratakis CA. Primary Aldosteronism and ARMC5 Variants. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015;100(6):E900-9.
35. Miras AD, Mogford JT, Wright J, Mendoza NN, Xekouki P, Lakhani A, Pellegata NS, Stratakis CA, Roncaroli F, Russell-Jones D. Ovarian hyperstimulation from ectopic hypersecretion of follicle stimulating hormone. Lancet. 2015; 385(9965):392.
36. Xekouki P*, Szarek E*, Bullova P, Giubellino A, Quezado M, Mastroyannis SA, Mastorakos P, Wassif CA, Raygada M, Rentia N, Dye L, Cougnoux A, Koziol D, Sierra Mde L, Lyssikatos C, Belyavskaya E, Malchoff C, Moline J, Eng C, Maher LJ 3rd, Pacak K, Lodish M, Stratakis CA. Pituitary Adenoma With Paraganglioma/Pheochromocytoma (3PAs) and Succinate Dehydrogenase Defects in Humans and Mice. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015;100(5): E710-9.
37. Faucz FR, Horvath AD, Azevedo MF, Levy I, Bak B, Wang Y, Xekouki P, Szarek E, Gourgari E, Manning AD, de Alexandre RB, Saloustros E, Trivellin G, Lodish M, Hofman P, Anderson YC, Holdaway I, Oldfield E, Chittiboina P, Nesterova M, Biermasz NR, Wit JM, Bernard DJ, Stratakis CA. Is IGSF1 involved in human pituitary tumor formation? Endocr Relat Cancer. 2015 ;22(1):47-54.
38. Mitra L Rauschecker, Stephanie M Cologna, Paraskevi Xekouki, Naris Nilubol, Robert D Shamburek, Maria Merino, Peter S Backlund, Alfred L Yergey, Electron Kebebew, James E Balow, Constantine A Stratakis, Smita Baid Abraham. Clinical Case Report: LECT2-Associated Adrenal Amyloidosis. AACE Clinical Case Reports, 2015;1 (1): e59-e67
39. Trivellin G, Daly AF, Faucz FR, Yuan B, Rostomyan L, Larco DO, Schernthaner-Reiter MH, Szarek E, Leal LF, Caberg JH, Castermans E, Villa C, Dimopoulos A, Chittiboina P, Xekouki P, Shah N, Metzger D, Lysy PA, Ferrante E, Strebkova N, Mazerkina N, Zatelli MC, Lodish M, Horvath A, de Alexandre RB, Manning AD, Levy I, Keil MF, Sierra Mde L, Palmeira L, Coppieters W, Georges M, Naves LA, Jamar M, Bours V, Wu TJ, Choong CS, Bertherat J, Chanson P, Kamenický P, Farrell WE, Barlier A, Quezado M, Bjelobaba I, Stojilkovic SS, Wess J, Costanzi S, Liu P, Lupski JR, Beckers A, Stratakis CA. Gigantism and acromegaly due to Xq26 microduplications and GPR101 mutation. N Engl J Med. 2014; 18;371:2363-74.
40. Dénes J, Swords F, Rattenberry E, Stals K, Owens M, Cranston T, Xekouki P, Moran L, Kumar A, Wassif C, Fersht N, Baldeweg SE, Morris D, Lightman S, Agha A, Rees A, Grieve J, Powell M, Boguszewski CL, Dutta P, Thakker RV, Srirangalingam U, Thompson CJ, Druce M, Higham C, Davis J, Eeles R, Stevenson M, O’Sullivan B, Taniere P, Skordilis K, Gabrovska P, Barlier A, Webb SM, Aulinas A, Drake WM, Bevan JS, Preda C, Dalantaeva N, Ribeiro-Oliveira A Jr, Garcia IT, Yordanova G, Iotova V, Evanson J, Grossman AB, Trouillas J, Ellard S, Stratakis CA, Maher ER, Roncaroli F, Korbonits M. Heterogeneous genetic background of the association of pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma and pituitary adenoma: results from a large patient cohort. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015 ;100(3): E531-41
41. Bram Z*, Xekouki P*, Louiset E, Keil MF, Avgeropoulos D, Giatzakis C, Nesterova M, Sinaii N, Hofland LJ, Cherqaoui R, Lefebvre H, Stratakis CA. Does somatostatin have a role in the regulation of cortisol secretion in primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease (PPNAD)? A clinical and in vitro investigation. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2014; 99(5): E891-901.
42. Gourgari E, Lodish M, Keil M, Wesley R, Hill S, Xekouki P, Lyssikatos C, Belyavskaya E, De La Luz SM, Stratakis CA. Post-operative growth is different in various forms of pediatric Cushing’s syndrome. Endocr Relat Cancer. 2014;21(6): L27-31.
43. Howard B, Wang Y, Xekouki P, Faucz FR, Jain M, Zhang L, Meltzer PG, Stratakis CA, Kebebew E. Integrated Analysis of Genome-wide Methylation and Gene Expression Shows Epigenetic Regulation of CYP11B2 in Aldosteronomas. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2014 ;99(3): E536-432013
44. Skoura E, Datseris IE, Xekouki P, Tolis G, Stratakis CA. SPECT and 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging of multiple paragangliomas and a growth hormone-producing pituitary adenoma as phenotypes from a novel succinate dehydrogenase subunit D mutation. Clin Nucl Med. 2014 ;39(1):81-3.
45. P Xekouki, SA Mastroyiannis, D Avgeropoulos, M Sierra, G Trivellin, EA Gourgari, Ch Lyssikatos, M Quezado, N Patronas, Ch Kanaka-Gantenbein, G P Chrousos, CA Stratakis. Familial pituitary apoplexy as the only presentation of a novel AIP mutation. Endocrine Related Cancer 2013;20(5): L11-4.
46. Azevedo MF, H Anelia, Bornstein ER, Almeida MQ, Xekouki P, Faucz FR, Gourgari E, Nadella K, Remmers EF, Quezado M, de Alexandre R, Kratz CP, Nesterova M, Greene MH, CA Stratakis. Cyclic AMP and c-KIT signaling in familial testicular germ cell tumor predisposition. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2013;98(8): E1393-400
47. Killian JK, Kim SY, Miettinen M, Smith C, Merino M, Tsokos M, Quezado M, Smith WI Jr, Jahromi MS, Xekouki P, Szarek E, Walker R, Lasota J, Raffeld M, Klotzle B, Wang Z, Jones L, Zhu YJ, Wang Y, Waterfall J, O’Sullivan M, Bibikova M, Pacak K, Stratakis CA, Janeway KA, Schiffman JD, Fan JB, Helman LJ, Meltzer PS. Succinate dehydrogenase mutation underlies global epigenomic divergence in gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Cancer Discov. 2013;3(6):648-57
48. Charmandari E, Sertedaki A, Kino T, Merakou C, Hoffman DA, Hatch MM, Hurt DE, Lin L, Xekouki P, Stratakis CA, Chrousos GP. A Novel Point Mutation in the KCNJ5 Gene Causing Primary Hyperaldosteronism and Early-Onset Autosomal Dominant Hypertension. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2012; 97: E1532-9
49. Palumbo T, Faucz FR, Azevedo M, Xekouki P, Iliopoulos D, Stratakis CA. Functional screen analysis reveals miR-26b and miR-128 as central regulators of pituitary somatomammotrophic tumor growth through activation of the PTEN-AKT pathway. Oncogene. 2013 ;32(13) :1651-9
50. Xekouki P, Stratakis CA. Succinate Dehydrogenase (SDHx) mutations in pituitary tumors: could this be a new role for mitochondrial complex II and/or Krebs cycle defects? Endocr Related Cancer 2012; 30;19(6):C33-40
51. Briassoulis G, Horvath A, Christoforou P, Lodish M, Xekouki P, Quezado M, Patronas N, Keil MF, Stratakis CA. Lack of mutations in the gene coding for the hGR (NR3C1) in a pediatric patient with ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma, absence of stigmata of Cushing’s syndrome and unusual histologic features. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2012 ;25(1-2) :213-9.
52. Briassoulis G, Kuburovic V, Xekouki P, Patronas N, Keil MF, Lyssikatos C, Stajevic M, Kovacevic G, Stratakis CA. Recurrent left atrial myxomas in Carney complex : a genetic cause of multiple strokes that can be prevented. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2012 ; 21(8) : 914.e1-8.
53. P Xekouki, M Hatch, Lin Lin, De Alexandre Rodrigo, M Azevedo, M de la Luz Sierra, I Levy, E Saloustros, A Moraitis, A Horvath, D A. Hoffman, C A. Stratakis. KCNJ5 mutations in the National Institutes of Health cohort of patients with primary hyperaldosteronism: an infrequent genetic cause of Conn’s syndrome. Endocr Relat Cancer. 2012; 19:255-60.
54. Almeida MQ, Azevedo MF, Xekouki P, Bimpaki EI, Horvath A, Collins MT, Karaviti LP, Jeha GS, Bhattacharyya N, Cheadle C, Watkins T, Bourdeau I, Nesterova M, Stratakis CA. Activation of cyclic AMP signaling leads to different pathway alterations in lesions of the adrenal cortex caused by germline PRKAR1A defects versus those due to somatic GNAS mutations. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2012; 97(4): E687-93.
55. P Xekouki, K Pacak, M Almeida, CA Wassif, P Rustin, M Nesterova, M de la Luz Sierra, J Matro, Evan Ball, M Azevedo, A Horvath, Ch Lyssikatos , M Quezado, N Patronas, B Ferando, B Pasini, A Lytras, G Tolis, CA. Stratakis. Succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) D subunit (SDHD) inactivation in a growth-hormone producing pituitary tumor: a new association for SDH? J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2012; 97(3): E357-66.
56. Briassoulis G1, Quezado M, Lee CC, Xekouki P, Keil M, Stratakis CA. Myxoma of the ear lobe in a 23-month-old girl with Carney complex. J Cutan Pathol. 2012 39(1):68-71.
57. King KS, Chen CC, Alexopoulos DK, Whatley MA, Reynolds JC, Patronas N, Ling A, Adams KT, Xekouki P, Lando H, Stratakis CA, Pacak K. Functional imaging of SDHx-related head and neck paragangliomas: comparison of 18F-fluorodihydroxyphenylalanine, 18F-fluorodopamine,18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucosePET,123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy, and 111In-pentetreotide scintigraphy. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2011;96 (9):2779-85
58. Briassoulis G, Damjanovic S, Xekouki P, Lefebvre H, Stratakis CA. The glucocorticoid receptor and its expression in the anterior pituitary and the adrenal cortex: a source of variation in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function; implications for pituitary and adrenal tumors. Endocr Pract. 2011;17(6):941-8.
59. Gaal J, Stratakis CA, Carney JA, Ball ER, Korpershoek E, Lodish MB, Levy I, Xekouki P, van Nederveen FH, den Bakker MA, O’Sullivan M, Dinjens WN, de Krijger RR. SDHB immunohistochemistry: a useful tool in the diagnosis of Carney-Stratakis and Carney triad gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Mod Pathol. 2011;24(1):147-5
60. Xekouki P, Azevedo M, Stratakis CA. Anterior pituitary adenomas: inherited syndromes, novel genes and molecular pathways. Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2010; 1;5(5):697-709.
61. Azevedo MF, Xekouki P, Keil MF, Lange E, Patronas N, Stratakis CA. An unusual presentation of pediatric Cushing disease: recurrent corticotropinoma of the posterior pituitary lobe. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2010; 23(6):607-12.
62. Livadas S, Dracopoulou M, Vasileiadi K, Lazaropoulou C, Magiakou MA, Xekouki P, Voutetakis A, Kanaka-Gantenbein C, Papassotiriou I, Stefanadis C, Chrousos GP, Dacou-Voutetakis C. Elevated coagulation and inflammatory markers in adolescents with a history of premature adrenarche. Metabolism-Clinical and Experimental. 2009; 58(4):576-81
63. Kaloumenou I, Alevizaki M, Ladopoulos C, Antoniou A, Duntas LH, Mastorakos G, Chiotis D, Mengreli C, Livadas S, Xekouki P, Dacou-Voutetakis C. Thyroid volume and echostructure in schoolchildren living in an iodine-replete area: relation to age, pubertal stage, and body mass index. Thyroid. 2007;17(9):875-81.
64. Livadas S, Magiakou MA, Mengreli C, Girginoudis P, Galani C, Smyrnaki P, Kanaka-Gantenbein C, Xekouki P, Chrousos GP, Dacou-Voutetakis C. Obesity and attenuated adiposity rebound in children with congenital hypothyroidism. Normalization of BMI values in adolescents. Horm Metab Res. 2007 Jul;39(7):524-8.
65. Xekouki P, Nikolakopoulou NM, Papageorgiou A, Livadas S, Voutetakis A, Magiakou MA, Chrousos GP, Spiliotis BE, Dacou-Voutetakis C. Glucose dysregulation in obese children: predictive, risk, and potential protective factors. Obesity (Silver Spring).2007;15(4):860-9
66. Tsolakis C, Xekouki P, Kaloupsis S, Karas D, Messinis D, Vagenas G, Dessypris A. The influence of exercise on growth hormone and testosterone in prepubertal and early-pubertal boys. Hormones (Athens) 2003; 2(2):103-12.
67. Voutetakis A, Sertedaki A, Livadas S, Xekouki P, Bossis I, Dacou-Voutetakis C, Argyropoulou MI. Pituitary size fluctuation in long-term MR studies of PROP1 deficient patients: A persistent pathophysiological mechanism? J Endocrinol Invest. 2006;29(5):462-6.
68. Livadas S, Xekouki P, Fouka F, Kanaka-Gantenbein C, Kaloumenou I, Mavrou A, Constantinidou N, Dacou-Voutetakis C. Prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in Turner’s syndrome: a long-term follow-up study and brief literature review. Thyroid. 2005;15(9):1061-6.
69. C Fotiadis, P Xekouki, A E Papalois, PT Antonakis, I Sfiniadakis, D Flogeras, E Karampela, G Zografos. Effects of Mycophenolate Mofetil versus Cyclosporine administration on graft survival and function after islet allotransplantation in diabetic rats. World J Gastroenterol. 2005; 11(18):2733-8
70. Xekouki P, Fryssira H, Maniati-Christidi M, Amenta S, Karavitakis EM, Kanaka-Gantenbein C, Dacou-Voutetakis C. Growth hormone deficiency in a child with Williams-Beuren syndrome. The response to growth hormone therapy. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2005;18(2):205-7.
71. Livadas S, Xekouki P, Kafiri G, Voutetakis A, Maniati-Christidi M, Dacou-Voutetakis C. Spontaneous pregnancy and birth of a normal female from a woman with Turner syndrome and elevated gonadotropins. Fertil Steril.2005; 83(3):769-72.
72. A Voutetakis, M Argyropoulou, A Sertedaki, S Livadas, P Xekouki, M Maniati-Christidi, I Bossis, N Thalassinos, N Patronas, C Dacou-Voutetakιs. Pituitary MR Imaging in 15 patients with Prop-1 gene mutations: pituitary enlargement may originate from the intermediate lobe. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004; 89(5): 2200- 2206
73. Xekouki P, Papalois A, Fotiadis C, Sfiniadakis J, Karampela E, Papadopoulou A, Grigoriou T, Sechas MN. In vivo test of two low doses of mycophenolate mofetil in an experimental model of islet allotransplantation. Transplant Proc. 2002 ;34(5):1446-8.
74. Fotiadis C, Pilichos H, Preza A, Papalois A, Demonakou M, Perrea D, Xekouki P, Poussios D, Karampela E, Papadopoulou A, Grigoriou T, Karayannakos P, Sechas M. Transplantation of cultured allogeneic hepatocytes without immunosuppression. Transplant Proc. 2001;33(3):2400-3.

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