A benchmark reference textbook.
An exceptional editorial team and internationally renowned
contributors come together to bring you Brook’s Clinical
Pediatric Endocrinology. This new book is full of practical
advice and is essential reading for everyone involved in the care
of children and adolescents with endocrine disease and
disorders.
This outstanding reference book has been fully updated to
feature new concepts, new investigations and new molecular
mechanisms and is full of practical, clinical advice. The
perfect text for pediatric endocrinologists, endocrinologists and
pediatricians.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Genetics and Genomics (Peter A. Kopp).
Principles of Hormone Action (Melissa Westwood).
3. Measuring Hormones, Molecular Tests and their Clinical
Application (Jan M. Wit, Marcel Karperien & Bart E.P.B.
Ballieux).
4. Congenital Disorders of the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Somatotrope
Axis (Ameeta Mehta, Evelien F. Gevers & Mehul T.
Dattani).
5. Acquired Disorders of the Hypothalamo-Pituitary Axis
(Kyriaki-Sandy Alatzoglou & Mehul T. Dattani).
6. Evaluation of Growth Disorders (Jerry K. Wales).
7. Management of Disordered Growth (Steven D.
Chernausek).
8. Evaluation and Management of Late Effects of Cancer Treatment
(Helena K. Gleeson & Stephen M. Shalet).
9. Evaluation and Management of Disorders of Sex Development
(Ieuan A. Hughes).
10. Evaluation of Disordered Puberty (Mehul T. Dattani,
Vaitsa Tziaferi & Peter C. Hindmarsh).
11. Management of Disordered Puberty (Jakub Mieszczak,
Christopher P. Houk & Peter A. Lee).
12. The Thyroid (Rosalind S. Brown).
13. The Adrenal Cortex and its Disorders (Walter L.
Miller).
14. Polyglandular Syndromes (Catherine J. Owen, Tim D.
Cheetham & Simon H.S. Pearce).
15. Disorders of Water Balance (David R. Repaske).
16. The Parathyroid and Disorders of Calcium and Bone Metabolism
(Jeremy Allgrove).
17. Endocrine Neoplasia in Childhood (Joanne C.
Blair).
18. Diabetes Mellitus (Andrew W. Norris & Joseph I.
Wolfsdorf).
19. Hypoglycemia: Assessment and Management (Andrew
Cotterill, David Cowley & Ristan Greer).
20. Childhood Obesity (Michael Freemark).
21. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (M. Isabel Hernandez &
Verónica Mericq).
22. Weight Regulation and Monogenic Obesity (I. Sadaf
Farooqi).
23. Ethical Issues in Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology (Leena
Patel & Peter E. Clayton).
Appendix: Syndrome-specific Growth Charts.
Om författaren
Professor Charles Brook MA, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH, was the founder and
first director of the London Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology at
Great Ormond Street and The Middlesex Hospitals. His professorial
chair of Paediatric Endocrinology at University College London was
the first academic appointment in this subject in UK.
Professor Peter Clayton BSc, MD(Manchester), MRCP, FRCPCH, is
Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology & Child Health at the
Academic Unit of Child Health and Human Development and
Reproductive Health Academic Group and consultant paediatric
endocrinologist at Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital, UK
Professor Rosalind Brown, MD, received her bachelor’s degree and
medical degree from Mc Gill University in Montreal, Quebec. She is
an active staff member at Children’s Hospital Boston in
Massachusetts, and is a consulting staff member at Metro West
Medical Center. At Children’s Hospital Boston, Dr. Brown is the
director of Clinical Trial Research (Endocrinology), the
coordinator of the Clinical Research Conference, Endocrine
Division, the Children’s Hospital Boston liaison for the
Inter-Hospital Thyroid Conference, and serves as chair of the
Career Development Workshop Subcommittee, Endocrine Division.
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