Publisher's Synopsis
This text covers the field of endocrinology and metabolism. It provides comprehensive coverage of the diffuse endocrine system; morphology and physiology, diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disease; endocrinology of the female; hormones and cancer and alternative theories and treatment.;This edition includes six new chapters: endocrine disease during pregnancy; lipid abnormalities in diabetes; the endocrine aspects of benign prostatic hyperthrophy; parathyroid hormone-related peptide; markers of bone metabolism.
