The thyroid and its diseases /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Churchill Livingstone,
1996.
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| Edition: | Sixth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The phylogeny, ontogeny, anatomy, and metabolic regulation of the thyroid
- Thyroid hormone synthesis and secretion
- Thyroid hormone transport, cellular uptake, metabolism, and molecular action
- Normal physiology of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroidal system and its relation to the neural system and other endocrine glands
- Effects of drugs, disease, and other agents on thyroid function; the nonthyroidal illness syndrome
- Evaluation of thyroid function in health and in disease
- Autoimmunity to the thyroid gland
- Hashimoto's thyroiditis
- Adult hypothyroidism
- Graves' disease and the manifestations of thyrotoxicosis
- Graves' disease: Diagnosis and treatment
- Complications of Graves' disease
- Thyrotoxicosis of other etiologies
- Thyroid dysfunction in the pregnant patient.
- Onotogenesis of thyroid function, thyroid hormone and brain development, diagnosis and treatment of congenital hypothyroidism
- Genetic defects of thyroid hormone supply, transport, and action
- Multinodular goiter.
- Thyroid neoplasia
- Acute and subacute thyroiditis
- Iodine deficiency disorders
- Surgery of the thyroid gland.