The thyroid and its diseases /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeGroot, Leslie J.
Other Authors: Larsen, P. Reed, Hennemann, Georg
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Churchill Livingstone, 1996.
Edition:Sixth edition.
Subjects:
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.