Endocrinology. Adult and Pediatric: The Thyroid Gland

Description

Access all of the latest advances in thyroid disorder management with The Thyroid Gland! Brought to you by the same leading endocrinologists responsible for the highly acclaimed two-volume textbook, Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric, this derivative book presents a compilation of chapters covering all material related to the thyroid gland. Never before available as a stand-alone offering, this content will enable you to give your patients the benefit of today's best know-how on thyroid disorder management from the leading resource in endocrinology.

Table of contents

1. Anatomy and Development of the Thyroid
2. Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone: Physiology and Secretion
3. Thyroid Regulatory Factors
4. Thyroid Hormone Metabolism
5. Mechanisms of Thyroid Hormone Action
6. Thyroid Function Testing
7. Thyroid Imaging
8. Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
9. Graves’ Disease
10. Graves’ Ophthalmopathy
11. Autonomously Functioning Thyroid Nodules and Other Causes of Thyrotoxicosis
12. Chronic (Hashimoto’s) Thyroiditis
13. Subacute and Riedel’s Thyroiditis
14. Hypothyroidism and Myxedema Coma
15. Nonthyroidal Illness Syndrome: A Form of Hypothyroidism
16. Multinodular Goiter
17. Iodine Deficiency Disorders
18. Thyroid Neoplasia
19. Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma and Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2
20. Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Receptor Mutations
21. Genetic Defects in Thyroid Hormone Synthesis and Action
22. Thyroid Hormone Binding and Variants of Transport Proteins
23. Resistance to Thyroid Hormone
24. Surgery of the Thyroid
25. Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy