Imaging Endocrine Diseases in Children

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Avni, Fred (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Medical Radiology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Endocrinology.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.

This book is a unique resource that will help pediatric radiologists, pediatricians, and pediatric endocrinologists to optimize the work-up and treatment of pediatric patients with endocrine disorders. Acclaimed experts in the field present and discuss the imaging findings obtained in disorders of t...

Table of Contents:

• The importance of imaging the endocrine glands from the endocrinologist point of view
• The imaging of fetal glands
• Assessing normal and abnormal (bone) growth
• The hypothalamo-hypophyseal axis
• The thyroid and parathyroids
•   Ambiguous genitalia
• Female pelvis and precocious puberty
• The adrenals
• Pancreatic diseases (including hypoglycaemia)
• Conclusions.    .