TY - BOOK AU - AU - Lifshitz, Fima, ED - ED - ED - ED - SN - 0824793692 (alk. paper);9780824793692 (alk. paper) SN - 2 PY - 1981///;copyright 1996.46 CY - New York PB - Raven Press KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - physiopathology KW - Pediatric endocrinology.;Endocrine System Diseases.;Child.;Endocrine System Diseases;Infant N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / Robert M. Blizzard -- Foreword / Maria I. New -- Growth and Growth Disorders. 1. Short Stature / Fima Lifshitz and Cecilia D. Cervantes. 2. Hypopituitarism / Sandra L. Blethen. 3. Hereditary Growth Hormone Deficiency and Growth Hormone Insensitivity Syndrome / Yoshikazu Nishi. 4. Disorders of Growth Hormone Neurosecretion / Barry B. Bercu. 5. Growth Hormone Treatment / David B. Allen, Ann J. Johanson and Robert M. Blizzard. 6. Syndromes of Psychosocial Short Stature / Robert M. Blizzard and Anamaria Bulatovic. 7. Intrauterine Growth Retardation / Joseph B. Warshaw. 8. Nutritional Growth Retardation / Fima Lifshitz, Omer Tarim and Melanie M. Smith. 9. Failure to Thrive / Gerald F. Powell. 10. The Skeletal Dysplasias / Mordechai Shohat and David L. Rimoin. 11. Short Stature: Intellectual and Behavioral Aspects / David E. Sandberg. 12. Tall Stature and Excessive Growth Syndromes / S. Douglas Frasier -- Sexual Development Abnormalities and Adrenal Disorders; 5 ER -