Overgrowth Syndromes

by M. Michael Cohen Jr. and Giovanni Neri

Overgrowth Syndromes presents a broad yet in-depth discussion of children who are large at birth or experience excessive postnatal growth or some combination of increased weight, length, and head circumference. Many of these syndromes are associated with an increased frequency of tumors. The book is important because of the ever-increasing number of newly identified overgrowth syndromes and the rapid progression of molecular knowledge of these conditions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195117468
• ISBN13: 9780195117462
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.3"