Pediatric Endocrinology

Sally Radovick, MDThe John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baltimore, MD, USAMargaret H. MacGillivray, MDChildren's Hospital of Buffalo, Department of Pediatrics, Buffalo, NY, USA

From the reviews of the second edition: "The second edition of this volume has introduced changes, updates, extensions and references up to 2010. It is a clinically oriented text useful to pediatric endocrinologists and practitioners." (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), Vol. 11 (2), September, 2013)

• Childhood Growth Hormone Deficiency and Hypopituitarism.- Growth Hormone Insensitivity.- Skeletal Dysplasias.- Idiopathic Short Stature.- Growth Hormone Treatment Of The Short Child Born Small For Gestational Age.- Growth Hormone Therapy in  Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome.- Turner Syndrome.- Management of Adult with Childhood Onset Growth Hormone Deficiency.- Diabetes Insipidus.- Management of Acute and Late Endocrine Effects Following Childhood Cancer Treatment.- Endocrinologic Sequelae of Anorexia Nervosa.- Adrenal Insufficiency .- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.- Cushing Syndrome in Childhood.- Congenital Hypothyroidism.- Autoimmune Thyroid Disease.- Non-Thyroidal Illness Syndrome.- Resistance to Thyroid Hormone and TSH Receptor Mutations.- Thyroid Neoplasia.- Abnormalities in Calcium Homeostasis.- Rickets: The Skeletal Disorders of Impaired Calcium or Phosphate Availability.- Delayed Puberty.- Precocious Puberty: Clinical Management.- Management of Infants Born with Disorders of Sex Development.- Menstrual Disorders and Hyperandrogenism in Adolescence.- Contraception.- Hypoglycemia.- Diabetes Mellitus in Children and Adolescents.- Type II Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity in Youth.- Diagnosis and Treatment of Dyslipoproteinemias in Children and Adolescents.- Autoimmune Endocrine Disorders.- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndromes.- The Endocrine Response to Critical Illness.