Editor

Ze’ev Hochberg

Practical
Algorithms in
Pediatric
Endocrinology

A practical handbook
for use at the patient’s bedside
This book is meant as a pragmatic text to be used at the patient’s bedside.
It classifies common clinical symptoms, signs and laboratory abnormalities as
they present themselves in daily practice. Aimed at an audience of general
and family practitioners, trainees or pediatricians who are not exposed on a
day-to-day basis to pediatric endocrine problems, it provides a logical, con-
cise and cost-effective approach from which they can profit and acquire med-
ical reasoning.
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how to diagnose

Medical textbooks are mainly oriented by body systems, disease or diagnosis, yet
the practicing physician is confronted with the patient’s complaint by a symptom,
physical sign or laboratory abnormality, from which he is expected to diagnose and
proceed with treatment. The traditional medical approach is through differential diag-
nosis by exclusion. Algorithms provide a direct approach to breaking down long
lists/tables of differential diagnosis into smaller, more manageable ones. Often, a
whole group of diagnoses can be excluded by a single or group of signs, blood tests
or imaging.
CONTENTS
Introduction (Hochberg, Z.)
Growth
Failure to thrive (Hintz, R.L.; Hochberg, Z.)
Short stature (Hintz, R.L.; Ritzén, M.)
Growth hormone treatment
(Hintz, R.L.; Bourguignon, J.-P.)
Tall stature (Hochberg, Z.; Ritzén, M.)
Overweight (Hochberg, Z.; Rogol, A.D.)
Brain irradiation (Rogol, A.D; Dunger, D.)
Puberty
Precocious breast development in a girl
(Bourguignon, J.-P.; Rosenfield, R.L.)
Precocious genital development in a boy
(Bourguignon, J.-P.; Rosenfield, R.L.)
Precocious pubarche (Bourguignon, J.-P.;
Rosenfield, R.L.)
Gynecomastia (Rosenfield, R.L.; Hochberg, Z.)
Delayed or absent testicular development
(Bourguignon, J.-P.; Rosenfield, R.L.)
Delayed or absent breast development
(Bourguignon, J.-P.; Rosenfield, R.L.)
Primary amenorrhea and abnormal
genital anatomy (Rosenfield, R.L.;
Bourguignon, J.-P.)
Secondary amenorrhea (Rosenfield, R.L.;
Bourguignon, J.-P.)
Anovulatory disorders (Rosenfield, R.L.;
Bourguignon, J.-P.)
Hirsutism (Rosenfield, R.L.; Sippell, W.G.)
Intersex
Micropenis at age 1 year to puberty
(Ritzén, M.; Hintz, R.L.)
Micropenis in a newborn (Ritzén, M.;
Hintz, R.L.)
Hypospadias/virilization (Ritzén, M.;
Hintz, R.L.)
Cryptorchidism (Rogol, A.D.; Hochberg, Z.)
Turner syndrome (Hintz, R.L.; Hochberg, Z.)
Adrenal
Hypertension (Sippell, W.G.; Hochberg, Z.)
Cushing syndrome (Rogol, A.D.; Hochberg, Z.)
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in the
newborn period (Ritzén, M.; Hintz, R.L.)
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
presenting after the newborn period
(Ritzén, M.; Hintz, R.L.)
Water and electrolytes
Polyuria (Hochberg, Z.; Rogol, A.D.)
Hyperhydration (Sippell, W.G.; Hochberg, Z.)
Dehydration (Sippell, W.G.; Hochberg, Z.)
Hypernatremia (Sippell, W.G.; Hochberg, Z.)
Hyponatremia (Sippell, W.G.; Hochberg, Z.)
Hyperkalemia (Sippell, W.G.; Hochberg, Z.)
Hypokalemia (Sippell, W.G.; Hochberg, Z.)
Calcium metabolism
Hypercalcemia (Hochberg, Z.)
Hypocalcemia (Hochberg, Z.)
Rickets (Hochberg, Z.)
Hypomagnesemia (Rogol, A.D.; Hochberg, Z.)
Thyroid
Congenital hypothyroidism (Foley, T.P. Jr.;
Peter, F.)
Juvenile hypothyroidism (Peter, F.;
Foley, T.P. Jr.)
Hyperthyroidism (Peter, F.; Foley, T.P. Jr.)
Neonatal hyperthyroidism (Foley, T.P. Jr.;
Peter, F.)
Goiter (Peter, F.; Foley, T.P. Jr.)
Thyroid nodules in children and adolescents
(Foley, T.P. Jr.; Peter, F.)
Thyroid carcinoma (Foley, T.P. Jr.; Peter, F.)
Hypothyroxinemia (Foley, T.P. Jr.; Peter, F.)
Hyperthyroxinemia (Peter, F.; Foley, T.P. Jr.)
 CONTENTS (continued)
Carbohydrates
Hypoglycemia (Sperling, M.A.; Menon, R.K.; Dunger, D.)
Hyperglycemia (Dunger, D.; Menon, R.K.; Sperling, M.A.)
Prediabetes and prediction of diabetes (Sperling, M.A.;
Menon, R.K.; Dunger, D.)
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)
(Sperling, M.A.; Menon, R.K.; Dunger, D.)
Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM)
(Dunger, D.; Menon, R.K.; Sperling, M.A.)
Maturity-onset diabetes of youth (MODY)
(Sperling, M.A.; Menon, R.K.; Dunger, D.)
Ketoacidosis (Dunger, D.; Menon, R.K.; Sperling, M.A.) Practical Algorithms
in Pediatric Endocrinology
Index of Signs and Symptoms
Editor: Hochberg, Z. (Haifa)
Abbreviations IV + 110 p., 52 graphs, 4 fig., 1 tab.,
spiral bound, 1998
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