Pediatric Endocrinology: Expert Consult - Online and Print

Description:

New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0721695396

About this title:

• 3.86
  7 ratings by Goodreads

Synopsis: This comprehensive, definitive reference in the field, incorporates all of today's explosive discoveries in basic and clinical endocrinology. Its reliable, cutting-edge guidance for a full range of problems is combined with a wealth of information on the physiological, biochemical, and genetic basis at the molecular biological level. Dr. Mark A. Sperling and 33 contributing experts bring readers the benefits of discovery at the bench and its application at the bedside. New chapters, extensive revisions, and compelling updates will keep readers at the forefront of the diagnosis and management of endocrine disease in children.

• Incorporates the explosive growth in molecular biology as it relates to developmental and pediatric endocrinology.
• Extensively revised and updated chapters throughout reflect the latest information.
• Coverage of up-to-the-minute topics in the field, including molecular, biochemical, and clinical basis of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy and childhood diabetes mellitus energy balance/obesity growth hormone paradigms of mechanisms of hormone action, and others
• Contributions from new authors from distinguished institutions
• Numerous brand-new illustrations depict the most current information, particularly the basic science/genetic basis of certain entities

About the Author: Mark A. Sperling, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Chair Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Bibliographic Details

Title: Pediatric Endocrinology: Expert Consult - ...
Publisher: Saunders
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new
Edition: 2nd Edition