Clinicians' Guide to Growth Disorders (Clinicians Guide Series)

Growth monitoring is increasingly being carried out by primary health care teams and forms a key part of the National Guidelines on Child Surveillance. A Clinicians' Guide to Growth Disorders presents current knowledge in a compact and user-friendly format providing primary care workers who detect growth abnormalities with practical, clinical guidance.



The book follows the ""Clinicians' Guide"" format and is written in a digestible style with an attractive layout. It provides a comprehensive account from a physician's viewpoint of growth disorders in children - including growth abnormalities such as delayed and precocious puberty, obesity and failure to thrive. Correct growth measurement is explained in depth with detailed examples before focusing upon the many pathologies that affect growth and how careful examination and assessment of pubertal status in a child may oftne reveal the cause. The practical approach is maintained by emphasizing diagnostic steps and appropriate treatment for these disorders such as counselling and referrals to specialist centres. Written primarily for primary care physicians, community paediatricians, auxologists and health workers it is also highly suitable for trainee paediatricians and endocrinologists.