Illustrated Textbook of Clinical Chemistry

Biochemical tests in clinical chemistry; water and sodium; potassium; hydrogen ion homoeostasis and blood gases; the kidney; the liver; the gastro-intestinal tract; the hypothalamus and pituitary gland; the adrenal glands; the thyroid gland; the gonads; diabetes mellitus; hypoglycaemia; calcium, phosphate, magnesium and bone; plasma proteins; lipids and lipoproteins; clinical enymology; inherited metabolic diseases; haemoproteins, porphyrins and iron; hyperuricaemia and gout; metabolic aspects of malignant disease; therapeutic drug monitoring and chemical aspects of toxicology; clinical nutrition; clinical chemistry at the extremes of age.