Wilkins: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Endocrine Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence (4th ed.)

Pediatric endocrinology has made great advances in the nearly thirty years since the last edition of this text in 1965. Genetics has become a most important field in understanding endocrine disorders, and cytogenetics and molecular genetics continuously reveal the finer aspects of genetic regulation. The descriptional aspects of growth and pubertal development have made tremendous progress, and more and more of the regulation of growth and puberty is understood. Immunology and the biologies have