Clinical Paediatric Endocrinology

Gene Structure, Recombinant DNA Technology and its Application in Paediatric Endocrinology; Applications of Molecular Genetics in the Study of Clinical Disorders; Physiology of Sexual Determination and Differentiation; The Clinical Management of Ambiguous Genitalia; Growth Factors and Prenatal Development: Recent Lessons from Molecular Biology; Normal Growth and its Endocrine Control; The Insulin-like Growth Factors; Signalling Mechanisms and Hormone Pulsatility; Short Stature; The Management of Short Stature; Growth-hormone-resistant States; Tall Stature; The Fat Child; The Physiology of Puberty; Disorders of Puberty; Gynaecology; Reproductive Endocrinology - The Ovary; Reproductive Endocrinology - The testis; Anatomy and Physiology of the Hypothalamopituitary Axis; Neuroradiology; The Neurosurgical approach to Hypothalamohypopyseal Tumours; Thyroid, Adrenal and Pancreatic Surgery; Gynaecological Endocrine Surgery; Endocrine-related Urological Surgery; Growth and Endocrine Sequelae following the treatment of Childhood Cancer; The Thyroid Gland; The Adrenal Cortex; Adrenal Steroid Deficiency States; Adrenal Steroid Excess; Congenital adrenal hyperplasia; Salt and Water Balance: sodium-losing states and endocrine hypertension; The Neurohypophysis and water regulation; Pathophysiology of Diabetes Mellitus; The Management of Diabetes Mellitus; Hypoglycaemia; Lipid Disorders; Endocrine Control of Calcium and Bone Metabolism; Disorders of Calcium and Bone Metabolism; Laboratory Approach to the Child with Suspected Disorders of Calcium and Bone Metabolism; Tests and Normal Values in Paediatric Endocrinology; Index