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1 online resource (xi, 687 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
The new edition has been extensively revised to reflect new knowledge derived from advances in molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, diagnostics, and therapeutics as they apply to the pituitary gland. This comprehensive text is devoted to the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of pituitary disorders.
Setion I Hypothalamic -- Pituitary Function -- 1. Pituitary development / Jacques Drouin -- 2. Hypothalamic regulation of anterior pituitary function / Anat Ben-Shlomo and Shlomo Melmed -- 3. Adrenocorticotrophin / Carmen L. Soto-Rivera and Joseph A. Majzoub -- 4. Growth hormone / Vivien S. Bonert and Shlomo Melmed -- 5. Prolactin / Nadine Binart -- 6. Thyroid-stimulating hormone / Virginia D. Sarapura and Mary H. Samuel -- 7. Gonadotrophin hormones / Ursula B. Kaiser -- 8. The posterior pituitary / Daniel G. Bichet -- Section II Hypothalamic-Pituitary Disorders -- 9. The hypothalamus / Andrea Giustina, Stefano Frara, Alfio Spina and Pietro Mortini -- 10. Anterior pituitary failure / John D. Carmichael -- 11. Pituitary dysfunction in systemic disorders / Maria Fleseriu -- 12. Drugs and pituitary function / Maria Fleseriu -- 13. The pituitary gland in pregnancy / Andrea Glezer and Marcello D. Bronstein -- 14. Psychiatric disease in hypothalamic-pituitary disorders / Caroline Sievers and Gunter K. Stalla -- Section III Pituitary Tumors -- 15. Acromegaly / Shlomo Melmed -- 16. Prolactinoma / Phillipe Chanson and Dominique Maiter -- 17. Cushing disease / John D.C Newell-Rice -- 18. Thyrotrophin-secreting pituitary tumors / Yona Greenman -- 19. Nonfunctioning and gonadotrophin-secreting adenomas -- 20. Atypical pituitary adenomas / Daniel A. Donoho and Gabriel Zada -- 21. Genetics of pituitary tumor syndromes / Adrian F. Daly and Albert Beckers -- 22. Nonpituitary sellar masses / Luis V. Syro, Fabio Rotondo, Olga Moshkin and Kalman Kovacs -- Section IV Pituitary Procedures -- 23. Pituitary imaging / Marcel Maya and Barry D. Pressman -- 24. Pituitary surgery / Rudolf Fahlbusch and Michael Buchfelder.
Revised edition of: The pituitary / edited by Shlomo Melmed. 3rd ed. 2011.