Short description
Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations, this concise textbook of endocrinology and diabetes bridges the gap between specialist textbooks and color atlases. It's extensively illustrated throughout, reflecting the importance of learning to recognize and interpret clinical signs. Providing a comprehensive and thorough overview of the specialty, the text also features a succinct and easy-to-use format making it ideal for use as a quick reference or revision aid.
Long description
Opening with a short introductory chapter on the historical aspects of diabetes and endocrinology, this title goes on to offer a chapter on the latest scientific advances in the field, relating them directly to changes in clinical practice. The textbook is then divided into two sections: section one deals with diabetes, section two with endocrinology. The emphasis throughout is on the clinical aspects of the speciality, with basic science being included only where clinically relevant. The authors include many diagnostic and therapeutic protocols or "care maps" in the form of flow charts, thereby providing essential information in a format that can be very easily referred to and which relates directly to the needs of the inexperienced trainee or the non-specialist.