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List of contributors
Foreword
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1 Hormones and their target cells 1
2 Hormone pulsatility 17
3 Hormone assays 27
4 Principles underlying endocrine tests 37
5 The placenta 49
6 Physiology of sexual determination and differentiation 60
7 Endocrinology of the newborn 77
8 Normal growth and its endocrine control 95
9 Growth assessment: Purpose and interpretation 115
10 Management of disorders of size 124
11 The physiology of puberty 140
12 Disorders of puberty 165
13 Reproductive endocrinology 180
14 Disorders of water balance 193
15 Urogenital implications of endocrine disorders in children and adolescents 222
16 Thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and pancreas surgery 245
17 Brain tumours affecting growth and development 253
18 Management of multiple endocrine neoplasia 259
19 The late endocrine consequences of curing childhood cancer 267
20 The thyroid gland 288
21 The adrenal cortex and its disorders 321
22 Calcium and bone metabolism 377
23 Disorders of calcium and bone metabolism 390
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