Publisher's Synopsis
This is an attempt to provide the essentials of endocrinology, aimed at students and postgraduates working for higher examinations in medicine and surgery and to fill the gap between the small textbooks and the last-word tomes.;The advent of radioimmunoassays of hormones has advanced diagnosis in clinical endocrinology and the book attempts to reflect such advances. This edition has more illustrations and a larger page size and now also includes items by a small team of contributors, thus enabling specialized topics to be covered in more depth.