NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC BONE AND STONE DISEASE -This book provides a concise yet comprehensive description of the clinical manifestations, pathophysiology, diagnostic approaches and therapeutics of diseases that come under the rubric of bone, stone and related mineral disorders in an Asian perspective. The text, organised in 18 sections covering 116 chapters, and the appendices reflect the several basic sciences and clinical syndromes that contribute to the field of bone and stone diseases, and provide the current knowledge in the most useful and informative way in a single volume. This multiauthor book offers the core knowledge of bone biology, bone physiology and actions of hormones and growth factors on bone and mineral metabolism and the key risk factors for the formation of kidney stones. The chapters that follow address the diagnostic techniques available for investigation of bone and stone diseases. The other chapters review the current understanding of the various forms of nutritional and metabolic bone and stone diseases and their therapeutic modalities. Besides the text, numerous tables, descriptive figures and clinical illustrations make it an ideal publication providing a clear perspective to the readers. Most importantly, it is a landmark text-cum-reference sourcebook aimed at the clinicians, practitioners, students, trainees, research scientists and specialists in the disciplines of endocrinology, nutrition, Internal medicine, pediatrics, orthopaedics, nephrology, urology, rheumatology and gynecology. 1 normal bone: structure, biological organization and growth. 2 physiology of bone. 3 systemic and local regulators: clinical relevance for bone metabolism. 4 mineral homeostasis and disorders. 5 laboratory approach to the diagnosis of bone disease. 6 disorders of bone and mineral metabolism. 7 nutritional bone disease. 8 parametabolic bone disease. 9 metabolic bone disease. 10 inborn renal tubular transport defects. 11 inborn enzymetic defects. 12 osteosclerosis. 13 constitutional disorders of bone. 14 ectopic calcification and ossification. 15 paget"s disease of bone. 16 acquired diseases of bone and cartilage. 17 bones and teeth. 18 renal tract stone disease. 18 appendices.