Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism is a topical serial publication integrating the results from the latest original research into practical, evidence-based review articles that seek to address the key clinical issues of diagnosis, treatment and patient management.

Each issue follows a problem-orientated approach which focuses on the key questions to be addressed, clearly defining what is known and highlighting topics for future research. Management is described in practical terms so that it can be applied to the individual patient. The series is aimed at the physician either in practice or in training.

In practical paperback format, each 200 page issue of Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism provides a comprehensive review of clinical practice and thinking within one specific area of endocrinology and metabolism.

Each issue, written by an international team of contributors and guest edited by a renowned expert, form part of a continuous update of current clinical practice.

• Attractive format and two-colour text layout
• Six issues published annually
• Highlighting the latest 'best practice' and 'clinical evidence'
• Topic-based, problem-orientated approach
• Recommendations on diagnosis, treatment and patient management

The objective of the series is to provide the physician with the most up-to-date source of information in the field.

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Topics covered in 2008:

Volume 22 Issue 1
Fetal and Neonatal Endocrinology
P. Mullis & W. Kiess

Volume 22 Issue 2
Endocrinology and the Prostate
F. Labrie

Volume 22 Issue 3
The Small for Gestational Age Child
L.B. Johnson & M.O. Savage

Volume 22 Issue 4
Endocrine and Metabolic Determinants of Cancer Risk
J.M.P. Holly

Volume 22 Issue 5
Osteoporosis
R. Rizzoli

Volume 22 Issue 6
Thyroid Nodules and Cancer
F. Pacini



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