Diagnostics of endocrine function in children and adolescents

• Other Authors: Ranke, Michael B. (Editor), Mullis, Primus-E (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Basel Karger 2011
• Edition: Fourth Edition
• Subjects: Endocrine System Diseases > diagnosis; Adolescent; Child; Hormones > analysis
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A Karger 'Publishing Highlights 1890-2015' title A multitude of new developments, not only in the rapidly advancing field of molecular genetics and steroid metabolism but in all traditional areas of pediatric endocrinology, have influenced the diagnostic approach in children and adolescent...

Table of Contents:

• Laboratory measurements of hormones and related biomarkers : technologies, quality management and validation / Elmlinger, M.W.
• Molecular genetics and bioinformatics methods for diagnosis of endocrine disorders / Pandey, A.V., Mullis, P.E.
• Sonographic measurement of endocrine tissue / Haber, H.P., Neu, A.
• In vivo diagnostic methods of imaging and testing of endocrine function with radionuclides / Reiners, C., Farahati, J., Lassmann, M.
• Diagnostic tests of thyroid function in children and adolescents / Krude, H., Grüters Berlin, A.
• Growth hormone deficiency : diagnostic principles and practice / Ranke, M.B.
• Methods of evaluating spontaneous growth hormone secretion / Albertsson-Wikland, K., Rosberg S.
• Insulin-like growth factors and their binding proteins / Blum, W.F., Böttcher, C., Wudy, S.
• Diagnosis of growth hormone excess and hyperprolactinemia / Riedl, S., Frisch, H.
• Testing water regulation / Czernichow, P., Polak, M.
• Diagnostic investigations in inherited endocrine disorders of sodium regulation / Ferrari, P., Bianchetti, M.G.
• Investigation of calcium disorders in children / Perry, L., Allgrove, J.
• Hyperinsulinism, neonatal hypoglycemia, new mechanisms / Valayannopoulos, V., de Lonlay, P., Polak, M.
• Hypoglycaemia in infants and children / Hussain, K.
• Insulin resistance in childhood and adolescence / Ehehalt, S., Neu, A.
• Endocrine function of the testis / Holterhus, P.-M., Honour, J.W., Savage, M.O.
• Normal ovarian function and assessment of ovarian reserve in children and young people / Johnston, R.J., Wallace, W.H.B.
• Assessing the function of the human adrenal cortex / Flück, C.E.
• Mass spectrometry in the diagnosis of steroid-related disorders: clinical applications / Wudy, S.A.; Hartmann, M.F
• Assessing endocrine function in the newborn baby / Ogilvy-Stuart, A.L
• Bone metabolites / Crofton, P.M.
• Quantification of densitometric bone parameters and muscle function / Schoenau, E., Fricke, O.
• Body composition assessment in children and adolescents / Wells, J.C.K.
• Effect of body weight on endocrine parameters and fat hormones / Wabitsch, M., Reinehr, T., Fischer-Posovszky, P.