Overview
A pediatrician with specialization in pediatric endocrinology provides expert care to infants, children and adolescents who have diseases that result from an abnormality in the endocrine glands (glands which secrete hormones).
These diseases include
- diabetes mellitus
- growth failure
- unusual size for age
- early or late pubertal development
- birth defects
- the genital region
- disorders of the thyroid, the adrenal, and pituitary glands
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