There are ever increasing numbers of physicians
who specialize in the care of children with gynecologic
problems. Yet few special areas of medicine
have had to struggle to define its rightful place in
the clinical arena as much as pediatric and adolescent
gynecology. In fact, the twists and turns of
pediatric and adolescent gynecology have been like
a Wagnerian epic. This book helps to outline the
scope of the specialty and should be required reading
for those clinicians who work in this important
area of medicine. Its chapters zigzag across the
intersecting fields of endocrinology, urology, surgery,
clinical genetics, oncology and psychiatry. The
numbers of topics covered in the chapters of this
book illustrate how much the clinical practice of
pediatric and adolescent gynecology has evolved
over the past several decades.
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