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(Contemporary Endocrinology.) Edited by Brooke Swearingen and Beverly M.K. Biller. 475 pp., illustrated. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2008. $139. ISBN 978-1-58829-922-2.

This excellent book is a comprehensive and succinct summary of the diagnosis and management of various types of pituitary disorders. The contributors, who are leaders in the field, have written very good reviews of specific topics. The book is well organized and includes discussions of pathogenesis, pathologic findings, diagnostic approaches (including endocrine, ophthalmologic, and imaging approaches), and management (including medical therapies, surgery, and pituitary radiation). Discussions of specific problems, such as pituitary disease and pregnancy, pituitary disease in children, pituitary apoplexy, infiltrative disease, and the always problematic pituitary lesions that are discovered incidentally, are also included.

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