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(Contemporary Endocrinology.) Edited by Sally Radovick and Margaret H. MacGillivray. 582 pp., illustrated. Totowa, N.J., Humana, 2003. $165. ISBN 0-89603-946-3.

This new book is aptly named. The editors have assembled a multiauthored book that is focused on specific clinical guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of diverse endocrine disorders. For the sake of brevity and to fulfill its objective as a "practical clinical guide," the book contains few photographs or figures, and the discussions of pathophysiology and complex therapeutic issues are limited. Instead, the book incorporates a number of useful tables and flowcharts of diagnostic algorithms, specific protocols for specialized endocrine testing, and recommended therapeutic regimens.

The chapters are scholarly, well written, and relatively cohesive in organizational structure, starting with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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