Pediatric endocrinology. Growth, adrenal, sexual, thyroid, calcium and fluid balance disorders / Volume 2, (©2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Growth, adrenal, sexual, thyroid, calcium, and fluid balance disorders
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Fima Lifshitz.
• Other Names: Lifshitz, Fima, 1938-; Plotkin, Horacio B
• Contents: Foreword / Janet H. Silverstein, Robert M. Blizzard, Joseph I. Wolfsdorf, Maria I. New -- Preface / Fima Lifshitz -- Acknowledgments / Fima Lifshitz. SECTION I: GROWTH AND GROWTH DISORDERS -- 1. Worrisome growth / Adda Grimberg and Fima Lifshitz -- 2. Idiopathic short stature / Amrit Bhangoo, Henry Anhalt, and Ron G. Rosenfeld -- 3. Hypopituitarism and other disorders of the growth-hormone-insulin-like growth factor-I axis / Arlan L. Rosenbloom and Ellen Lancon Connor -- 4. Growth hormone-deficiency in the adult: transition from adolescence to adulthood / Roberto Lanes -- 5. Growth hormone treatment / Brandon M. Nathan and David B. Allen -- 6. The Skeletal dysplasias / Mordechai Shohat and David L. Rimoin -- 7. Overgrowth syndromes: evaluation and management of the child with excessive linear growth / Allen W. Root and Frank B. Diamond, Jr. SECTION II: ADRENAL DISORDERS AND SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT ABNORMALITIES -- 8. Adrenal cortex: hypo- and hyperfunction / Claude J. Migeon and Roberto Lanes -- 9. An Update of congenital adrenal hyperplasia / Maria I. New, Lucia Ghizzoni, and Karen Lin-Su -- 10. Disorders of the adrenal medulla-catecholamine producing tumors in childhood / Anna Kozupa, Graeme Eisenhofer, and Karel Pacak -- 11. Puberty and its disorders / Peter A. Lee and Christopher P. Houk -- 12. Turner syndrome / E. Kirk Neely, Patricia Y. Fechner, and Ron G. Rosenfeld -- 13. Hirsutism and polycystic ovary syndrome / Selma Feldman Witchel -- 14. Adolescent menstrual abnormalities / Amy Fleischman and Catherine Gordon -- 15. Disorders of sexual differentiation / Adriana A. Carrillo, Middey Damian, and Gary Berkovitz. SECTION III: THYROID DISORDERS -- 16. Thyroid disorders in infancy / Guy Van Vliet and Michael Polak -- 17. Hypothyroidism / Stephen A. Huang -- 18. Hyperthyroidism / John S. Dallas and Thomas P. Foley, Jr. -- 19. Thyromegaly / Stephen A. Huang -- 20. Thyroid tumors in children / Isil Halac and Donald Zimmerman. SECTION IV: DISORDERS OF CALCIUM AND MINERAL METABOLISM -- 21. Calcium disorders in children and adolescents / Ruben Diaz -- 22. Neonatal calcium, magnesium and phosphorus disorders / Winston W.K. Koo -- 23. Rickets and osteoporosis / Horacio Plotkin and Fima Lifshitz -- 24. Syndromes with brittle bones, hyperostotic bone diseases, and fibrous dysplasia of bone / Horacio Plotkin. SECTION V: MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS -- 25. Abnormal endocrine test results due to nonendocrine conditions / Ömer Tarim -- 26. Autoimmune endocrinopathies / William E. Winter -- 27. Multiple endocrine neoplasia / Berrin Ergun-Longmire, Giulia Costi, and Noel K. Maclaren -- 28. Endocrine tumors in children / Muhammad A. Jabbar -- 29. Disorders of water homeostasis / Abhinash Srivatsa and Joseph A. Majzoub -- 30. Endocrine disorders after cancer therapy / Raphaël Rappaport and Elisabeth Thibaud. SECTION VI: SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS AND RESOURCES -- 31. Radiation terrorism / Thomas P. Foley, Jr., Martin Charron, Faina Linkov and Edward P. Krenzelok -- 32. Using the web to obtain information on genetic and hormone disorders / John A. Phillips, III -- 33. Hormonal dynamic tests and genetic tests used in pediatric endocrinology / Adriana A. Carrillo and Yong Bao -- Index of volume 1.
• Edition: 5th ed
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Informa Healthcare
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 787 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 618.92/4; Pediatric endocrinology; Endocrine System Diseases; Adolescent; Child; Glucose Metabolism Disorders; Infant; Obesity; MEDICAL -- Pediatrics; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Children's Health; Pediatric endocrinology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420042726; 1420042726
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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