[The nuclear magnetic resonance in endocrinology. Spectroscopy and imaging, present and future]

The first part, after a brief historical reminder, gives an oversimplified and non-rigorous approach to the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) phenomenon; this "physical" introduction leads the clinician to know the essential about the spectral and imaging techniques in NMR, just to understand what is done... The second part of this paper shows some medical applications of these two aspects of NMR, with help of some examples, taken from the literature, according to what is concerned with endocrinology. Pure bio chemical applications (enzymology), or those concerning isolated (and perfused) organs, or living animals, and even human beings, are numerous and complementary, and there is no doubt that the applications of NMR technologies to medicine will know a promising future...