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Handbook of Endocrine Investigations in Children - I. A. Hughes
Handbook of Endocrine Investigations in Children
I.A. HUGHES, MD, FRCP, FRCP(C)
Reader in Paediatric Endocrinology, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff
Professor-Elect of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge
WRIGHT
Table of Contents
Cover image
Title page
Handbooks of Investigation in Children
Copyright
PREFACE TO REVISED REPRINT
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
FOREWORD
Chapter 1: General Principles of Endocrine Tests
Publisher Summary
RANDOM OR DYNAMIC TESTS
PREPARING THE CHILD
COLLECTION OF BLOOD SAMPLES
COLLECTION OF URINE SAMPLES
COLLECTION OF SALIVA SAMPLES
LABELLING AND PROCESSING OF SAMPLES
HORMONE ASSAYS
NORMAL RANGES FOR HORMONE CONCENTRATIONS
Chapter 2: The Pituitary
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GROWTH HORMONE
THYROID STIMULATING HORMONE
PROLACTIN
ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIN
GONADOTROPHIN-RELEASING HORMONE
ANTIDIURETIC HORMONE
COMBINED TEST OF ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR PITUITARY FUNCTION
THE SHORT CHILD WITH POSSIBLE GH DEFICIENCY
1. DIAGNOSIS: DELAYED PUBERTY (MALE)
2. DIAGNOSIS: DELAYED PUBERTY (MALE)
19. DIAGNOSIS: EXTREME SHORT STATURE (non-endocrine cause) RING Y-CHROMOSOME ANOMALY
Chapter 3: The Thyroid
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THYROID PROFILE
DEFINITIVE TESTS
THYROID ULTRASOUND
SUGGESTED PROTOCOL FOR INVESTIGATION OF CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM
1. DIAGNOSIS: CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM ECTOPIC SUBLINGUAL THYROID
2. DIAGNOSIS: CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM FALSE POSITIVE CREATINE KINASE TEST
3. DIAGNOSIS: PRIMARY HYPOTHYROIDISM DYSHORMONOGENESIS
4. DIAGNOSIS: PRIMARY HYPOTHYROIDISM AUTO-IMMUNE THYROIDITIS
5. DIAGNOSIS: AUTO-IMMUNE THYROIDITIS (HASHIMOTO’S). ALOPECIA AREATA
6. DIAGNOSIS: HYPERTHYROIDISM (GRAVEs’ DISEASE)
Chapter 4: Calcium, Parathyroid, Vitamin D
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HYPOCALCAEMIA
HYPERCALCAEMIA
CALCITONIN
CASE ILLUSTRATIONS
1. DIAGNOSIS: PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM PARATHYROID ADENOMA
2. DIAGNOSIS: VITAMIN D RESISTANT (HYPOPHOSPHATAEMIC) RICKETS
3. DIAGNOSIS: PSEUDO-HYPOPARATHYROIDISM
Chapter 5: The Adrenal Gland
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ADRENAL CORTEX
TESTS OF ADRENOCORTICAL FUNCTION (GLUCOCORTICOIDS)
TESTS OF ADRENOCORTICAL FUNCTION (MINERALOCORTICOIDS)
ADRENAL MEDULLA
1. DIAGNOSIS: PITUITARY-DEPENDENT CUSHING’S DISEASE
2. DIAGNOSIS: SIMPLE EXOGENOUS OBESITY
3. DIAGNOSIS: ADDISON’S DISEASE
4. DIAGNOSIS: SALT-LOSING CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA (MALE) 21-HYDROXYLASE DEFICIENCY
5. DIAGNOSIS: SALT-LOSING CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA 21-HYDROXYLASE DEFICIENCY
6. DIAGNOSIS: LATE-ONSET CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA
7. DIAGNOSIS: CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA 11 β-HYDROXYLASE DEFICIENCY
8. DIAGNOSIS: PHAEOCHROMOCYTOMA
Chapter 6: The Gonads
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TESTIS
OVARY
DISORDERS OF SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION
1. DIAGNOSIS: BILATERAL TESTICULAR TORSION PRIMARY HYPOGONADISM
2. DIAGNOSIS: BILATERAL CRYPTORCHIDISM
3. DIAGNOSIS: ISOLATED MICROPENIS
4. DIAGNOSIS: ISOLATED MICROPENIS
5. DIAGNOSIS: PUBERTAL GYNAECOMASTIA
6. DIAGNOSIS: COMPLETE ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME ANDROGEN-RECEPTOR NEGATIVE
7. DIAGNOSIS: PARTIAL ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME ANDROGEN-RECEPTOR POSITIVE
8. DIAGNOSIS: AMBIGUOUS GENITALIA MIXED GONADAL DYSGENESIS
9. DIAGNOSIS: DELAYED PUBERTY (FEMALE) RADIATION-INDUCED PRIMARY OVARIAN FAILURE
10. DIAGNOSIS: ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA SECONDARY LYMPHOMA RADIATION-INDUCED PRIMARY OVARIAN FAILURE
11. DIAGNOSIS: PREMATURE THELARCHE
12. DIAGNOSIS: PREMATURE THELARCHE
13. DIAGNOSIS: IDIOPATHIC HIRSUTISM
Chapter 7: The Endocrine Pancreas
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HYPERGLYCAEMIA
HYPOGLYCAEMIA
1. DIAGNOSIS: PERSISTENT NEONATAL HYPOGLYCAEMIA NESIDIOBLASTOSIS
2. DIAGNOSIS: INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS
3. DIAGNOSIS: SEVERE DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS HYPERLIPAEMIA
Chapter 8: The Molecular Biology of Endocrine Disease
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SAMPLES
ENDOCRINE DISORDERS
NORMAL VALUES
INDEX
Handbooks of Investigation in Children
This is a series of unique guides to the appropriate tests to be carried out in children with suspected disorders. Instructions for the performance and evaluation of tests are clearly explained. Each title is based on the authors’ personal experience in the respective field and is devoted to the investigation of children only.
Careful reference to these titles in clinical practice will help both to eliminate inadequate testing and to ensure that the practitioner will obtain the maximum information from the investigations carried out. To amplify the explicit text, case histories helpfully illustrate how the authors have used and interpreted investigations. These pocket-sized books are essential tools for all those involved in the diagnosis and management of childhood disorders.
Other titles
Handbook of Haematological Investigations in Children
R. F. Stevens
Handbook of Neurological Investigations in Children
C. M. Taylor and S. Chapman
Handbook of Renal Investigations in Children
J. B. P. Stephenson and M. D. King
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First published 1986
Reprinted with revisions 1989
© Butterworth & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1986
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Hughes, I. A.
Handbook of endocrine investigations in children.
1. Paediatric endocrinology 2. Endocrine glands—Diseases—Diagnosis
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ISBN 0–7236–0719–2
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PREFACE TO REVISED REPRINT
Barely three years after it was first launched, this Handbook appears in a revised reprint to complement the publication of an initial trio (Nephrology, Haematology, Neurology) in a planned series of Handbooks to guide general paediatricians in the investigation of childhood disorders. Experience has shown that the prime objective of such Handbooks is to continue to ensure children are investigated using appropriate tests to produce the maximum information with a minimum of discomfort.
The majority of the changes in the Handbook are confined to the chapter on the Pituitary, particularly in relation to growth hormone secretion. The widespread availability of commercially prepared growth hormone by recombinant DNA technology means that specialized growth clinics are no longer the sole distributors of this hormone for treatment purposes. The non-specialist will more often be deciding which child should receive growth hormone treatment. It is essential to emphasise again the importance of assessing growth velocity accurately in the first instance before embarking on a programme of investigation.
The case illustrations have been retained in their previous format. They demonstrate best which tests should be performed and how the results are to be interpreted. Progress in clinical investigation and research nowadays cannot avoid the science of molecular biology; this is acknowledged by the inclusion of a brief chapter which describes how samples for DNA are obtained and which endocrine disorders can currently be investigated by this technique. No doubt the approach to the investigation of many genetic endocrine disorders will radically alter as more is learned about the human genome.
I.A. Hughes
1989
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
FOREWORD
Professor
R. Hall, Professor of Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine
I am very pleased to write an introduction to this first edition of a Handbook of Endocrine Tests in Children. Dr I. A. Hughes is well qualified to produce this book. He graduated at the Welsh National School of Medicine and furthered his endocrine training both in this country and in North America He gained particular insight into the field of steroid biochemistry during his studies at the Tenovus Institute. He is an acknowledged expert in the field of neonatal endocrinology, particularly in the diagnosis and management of disorders of sexual differentiation.
The subject of endocrine tests is complex and, in some areas, controversial. As new hormones are identified new possibilities in testing emerge. For example, with the availability of growth hormone-releasing factor and corticotrophin-releasing factor we now have the ability to test GH and ACTH release directly. Most new tests are established in adults and their application to children needs close liaison between the paediatrician and the adult endocrinologists. In Cardiff, at the University of Wales College of Medicine, close links exist between the author and a large group of basic and clinical endocrinologists including Dr J. Picton Thomas (adrenal); Dr M. F. Scanlon (neuro-endocrinology), Professor R. Hall, Dr J. Lazarus and Dr A. McGregor (thyroid), Dr S. Woodhead (parathyroid and calcium), and Professor K. Griffiths (steroid biochemistry). It is from these frequent contacts that Dr Hughes’ endocrine approach has developed and