Pediatric bone
Subtitle: biology & diseases
By: edited by Francis H. Glorieux, John M. Pettifor, Harald Jüppner
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Elsevier/Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 853
ISBN-13: 9780123820402
Subjects: Bone diseases in children; Bone Diseases; Child; Bones; Bone Development; Physiology; Bone and Bones; Abnormalities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Bone cell biology: osteoclasts, osteoblasts, osteocytes / Katharine Jähn and Lynda F. Bonewald; title: 2. Bone matrix and mineralization / Marc D. McKee and William G. Cole; title: 3. Prenatal bone development / Fanxin Long; title: 4. Postnatal bone growth: growth plate biology, bone formation, and remodeling / Christa Maes and Henry M. Kronenberg; title: 5. Dental development and maturation, from the dental crypt to the final occlusion / Jean-Marc Retrouvey, Michel Goldberg and Stéphane Schwartz; title: 6. Parathyroid hormone and calcium homeostasis / John T. Potts and Thomas J. gardella; title: 7. Phosphate homeostasis regulatory mechanisms / Clemens Bergwitz and Harald Jüppner; title: 8. Vitamin D biology / René St-Arnaud and Marie B. Demay; title: 9. Peak bone mass and its regulation / Jean-Philippe Bonjour ... [et al.]; title: 10. Pregnancy and lactation / Ann Prentice; title: 11. Fetal mineral homeostasis / Christopher S. Kovacs; title: 12. Radiology / Judith E. Adams ... [et al.]; title: 13. Non-invasive techniques for bone mass measurement / Mary B. Leonard and Laura K. Bachrach; title: 14. Assessment of maturation: bone age and pubertal assessment / Noël Cameron and David D. Martin; title: 15. Biochemical markers of bone metabolism / Nick Shaw and Wolfgang Högler; title: 16. Pediatric bone histomorphometry / frank Rauch; title: 17. A diagnostic approach to skeletal dysplasias / Sheila Unger, Andrea Superti-Furga and David L. Rimoin; title: 18. The spectrum of pediatric osteoporosis / Maria Luisa Bianchi and Francis H. Glorieux; title: 19. Osteogenesis imperfecta / Francis H. Glorieux and David Rowe; title: 20. Sclerosing bone dysplasias / Bram Perdu ... [et al.]; title: 21. Parathyroid disorders / Murat Bastepe, Harald Jüppner and Rajesh V. Thakker; title: 22. Fibrous dysplasia / Paolo Bianco and Shlomo Wientroub; title: 23. Nutritional rickets / John M. Pettifor; title: 24. Metabolic bone disease in the neonatal period and its later sequelae / Nick Bishop, Mary Pewtrell and Nick Harvey; title: 25. Rickets due to hereditary abnormalities of vitamin D synthesis or action / Anthony A. Portale, Farzana Perwad and Walter L. Miller; title: 26. Familial hypophosphatemia and related disorders / Ingrid A. Holm, Michael J. Econs and Thomas O. Carpenter; title: 27. Hereditary tubular disorders of mineral handling / Daniella Magen and Israel Zelikovic; title: 28. Hypophosphatasia / michael P. Whyte; title: 29. Chronic kidney disease mineral and bone disorder / Katherine Wesseling Perry and Isidro B. Salusky; title: 30. Extraskeletal bone formation / Eileen M. Shore and Frederick S. Kaplan.