Dr. Craig A Alter M.D.
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
34th & Civic Center Blvd. Children's Hospital Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Craig Alter is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Alter specializes in growth, puberty, diabetes or other disorders related to hormones that produce certain conditions in children and growing young adults. Pediatric endocrinologists possess copious knowledge on hormone chemicals and how they can affect other parts of the body and their functions.
Education and Training
Harvard Medical School 1987
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Use of magnetic resonance imaging in short stature: data from National Cooperative Growth Study (NCGS) Substudy 8.
- Diagnostic dilemma. The goiter.
- Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency diagnosed in an adolescent with type 1 diabetes mellitus and hemoglobin A1c discordant with blood glucose measurements.
- Severe unsuspected maternal hypothyroidism discovered after the diagnosis of thyrotropin receptor-blocking antibody-induced congenital hypothyroidism in the neonate: failure to recognize and implications to the fetus.
- Menstrual Bleeding as a Manifestation of Mini-Puberty of Infancy in Severe Prematurity.
- The new highly sensitive adrenocorticotropin assay improves detection of patients with partial adrenocorticotropin deficiency in a short-term metyrapone test.
- Identification of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate in pancreatic islets and insulin-secreting beta-cells.
- Short- and long-term use of octreotide in the treatment of congenital hyperinsulinism.
- Growth hormone deficiency in two siblings with Alström syndrome.
- Growth in children after bone marrow transplantation for acute myelogenous leukemia as compared to acute lymphocytic leukemia.
Treatments
- Gynecomastia
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
- Hyperthyroidism
- Thyroiditis
- Graves' Disease
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