Pediatric endocrinology
Subtitle: Growth, adrenal, sexual, thyroid, calcium and fluid balance disorders
By: edited by Fima Lifshitz
Contributors: Plotkin, Horacio B.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 787
ISBN-13: 9781420042726
Subjects: Infant; Glucose Metabolism Disorders; Adolescent; Pediatrics; MEDICAL; Children's Health; Child; Pediatric endocrinology; HEALTH & FITNESS; Obesity; Endocrine System Diseases
Other titles: Growth, adrenal, sexual, thyroid, calcium, and fluid balance disorders
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Janet H. Silverstein, Robert M. Blizzard, Joseph I. Wolfsdorf, Maria I. New; title: Preface / Fima Lifshitz; title: Acknowledgments / Fima Lifshitz.; title: SECTION I: GROWTH AND GROWTH DISORDERS; title: 1. Worrisome growth / Adda Grimberg and Fima Lifshitz; title: 2. Idiopathic short stature / Amrit Bhangoo, Henry Anhalt, and Ron G. Rosenfeld; title: 3. Hypopituitarism and other disorders of the growth-hormone-insulin-like growth factor-I axis / Arlan L. Rosenbloom and Ellen Lancon Connor; title: 4. Growth hormone-deficiency in the adult: transition from adolescence to adulthood / Roberto Lanes; title: 5. Growth hormone treatment / Brandon M. Nathan and David B. Allen; title: 6. The Skeletal dysplasias / Mordechai Shohat and David L. Rimoin; title: 7. Overgrowth syndromes: evaluation and management of the child with excessive linear growth / Allen W. Root and Frank B. Diamond, Jr.; title: SECTION II: ADRENAL DISORDERS AND SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT ABNORMALITIES; title: 8. Adrenal cortex: hypo- and hyperfunction / Claude J. Migeon and Roberto Lanes; title: 9. An Update of congenital adrenal hyperplasia / Maria I. New, Lucia Ghizzoni, and Karen Lin-Su; title: 10. Disorders of the adrenal medulla-catecholamine producing tumors in childhood / Anna Kozupa, Graeme Eisenhofer, and Karel Pacak; title: 11. Puberty and its disorders / Peter A. Lee and Christopher P. Houk; title: 12. Turner syndrome / E. Kirk Neely, Patricia Y. Fechner, and Ron G. Rosenfeld; title: 13. Hirsutism and polycystic ovary syndrome / Selma Feldman Witchel; title: 14. Adolescent menstrual abnormalities / Amy Fleischman and Catherine Gordon; title: 15. Disorders of sexual differentiation / Adriana A. Carrillo, Middey Damian, and Gary Berkovitz.; title: SECTION III: THYROID DISORDERS; title: 16. Thyroid disorders in infancy / Guy Van Vliet and Michael Polak; title: 17. Hypothyroidism / Stephen A. Huang; title: 18. Hyperthyroidism / John S. Dallas and Thomas P. Foley, Jr.; title: 19. Thyromegaly / Stephen A. Huang; title: 20. Thyroid tumors in children / Isil Halac and Donald Zimmerman.; title: SECTION IV: DISORDERS OF CALCIUM AND MINERAL METABOLISM; title: 21. Calcium disorders in children and adolescents / Ruben Diaz; title: 22. Neonatal calcium, magnesium and phosphorus disorders / Winston W.K. Koo; title: 23. Rickets and osteoporosis / Horacio Plotkin and Fima Lifshitz; title: 24. Syndromes with brittle bones, hyperostotic bone diseases, and fibrous dysplasia of bone / Horacio Plotkin.; title: SECTION V: MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS; title: 25. Abnormal endocrine test results due to nonendocrine conditions / O mer Tarim; title: 26. Autoimmune endocrinopathies / William E. Winter; title: 27. Multiple endocrine neoplasia / Berrin Ergun-Longmire, Giulia Costi, and Noel K. Maclaren; title: 28. Endocrine tumors in children / Muhammad A. Jabbar; title: 29. Disorders of water homeostasis / Abhinash Srivatsa and Joseph A. Majzoub; title: 30. Endocrine disorders after cancer therapy / Raphae l Rappaport and Elisabeth Thibaud.; title: SECTION VI: SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS AND RESOURCES; title: 31. Radiation terrorism / Thomas P. Foley, Jr., Martin Charron, Faina Linkov and Edward P. Krenzelok; title: 32. Using the web to obtain information on genetic and hormone disorders / John A. Phillips, III; title: 33. Hormonal dynamic tests and genetic tests used in pediatric endocrinology / Adriana A. Carrillo and Yong Bao; title: Index of volume 1.