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

• 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.

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)