Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology

This text offers a practical concise guide to clinical paediatric endocrinology, presenting relatively short but comprehensive reviews of physiologic and pathophysiologic principles, and practical management of paediatric endocrine disorders. The book comprises 13 chapters covering general principles of hormone action, normal growth and development, the pituitary and pineal glands; parathyroid glands; thyroid glands; adrenal glands; ovaries and testes, diabetes mellitus; hypoglycemia, obesity and hyperlipidemoas and psychological aspects of paediatric endocrine disorders.