Clinical biochemistry : metabolic and clinical aspects / edited by William J. Marshall and Stephen K. Bangert. - New York : Churchill Livingstone, 1995. - xi, 854 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The uses of biochemical data in clinical medicine / William J. Marshall -- The acquisition of biochemical data / William J. Marshall -- The interpretation of biochemical data / William J. Marshall -- Sodium, water and potassium / Michael Penney -- Hydrogen ion homeostasis, tissue oxygenation and their disorders / William J. Marshall -- Calcium, phosphate and magnesium / T. Cundy and I. Reid -- The kidneys, renal function and renal failure / William J. Marshall -- Proteinuria / Peter Gosling -- Renal tubular disorders and renal calculi / Stephen K. Bangert -- The clinical biochemistry of nutrition / Stephen K. Bangert -- Malabsorption / Stephen K. Bangert -- The assessment of hepatic function and investigation of jaundice / P. J. Johnson -- Acute and chronic liver disease / P. J. Johnson -- Diabetes mellitus / Simon Coppack -- Hypoglycaemia / Mourad Labib -- Hypothalamic and pituitary disorders / Trevor A. Howlett -- Adrenal disorders / P. L. Drury -- Thyroid dysfunction / J. Butler and R. Pope -- Hormonal aspects of non-endocrine disease / Edward Hillhouse -- Abnormal sexual development / Ieuan A. Hughes -- Abnormalities of reproductive function / John Waterstone, John Parsons, John Miell and Richard Ross -- Pregnancy, oral contraception and hormone replacement therapy / R. Bradley and D. Crook -- Paediatric clinical biochemistry / Philip Mayne and Maggie Hancock -- Biochemical aspects of haemolysis / H. Hambley and A. Lestas -- Disorders of haem synthesis and the porphyrias / B. Adriaans -- The haemoglobinopathies / Mark Layton, Roopen Arya and Alastair Bellingham -- Paraproteinaemias / P. Riches -- Metabolic bone disease / T. Cundy and I. Reid -- Biochemical aspects of articular disease / Pauline Pitt -- Muscle disease / D. M. Turnbull and L. A. Bindoff -- Investigation of cerebrospinal fluid / R. Beetham -- Biochemical aspects of psychiatric disorders / M. Murphy -- Biochemical aspects of neurological disease / J. Gareth Llewelyn -- Biochemical aspects of mental handicap / Elizabeth F. Marshall and Stephen P. Tyrer -- Lipid metabolism, hyper-and hypolipididaemias and atherosclerosis / C. B. Marenah -- Therapeutic drug monitoring / M. J. Stewart -- Poisoning / John Henry -- Metabolic effects of tumours / E. W. Hillhouse and T. Loughlin -- Tumour markers / Graham H. Beastall and E. Jean McAllister -- Cellular aspects of clinical biochemistry / A. Fleck and M. Myers -- Molecular clinical biochemistry / M. Norman -- Free radicals / Roberta J. Ward and Timothy J. Peters -- Clinical biochemistry in the investigation of acute chest pain and the acute abdomen / James Hooper and Stephen K. Bangert.

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Clinical biochemistry.
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