Clinical management of thyroid disease. (©2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Fredric E. Wondisford, Sally Radovick.
• Other Names: Wondisford, Fredric E; Radovick, Sally
• Contents: Normal thyroid axis -- Anatomy -- Anatomy of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis -- Thyroid development -- Thyroid hormone -- Thyroid hormone synthesis -- Thyroid hormone action -- Thyroid hormone metabolism -- Thyroid axis -- Role of thyrotropin-releasing hormone in the regulation of the thyroid axis -- Thyroid-stimulating hormone and thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor -- Pediatric thyroid disease -- Screening for congenital disease -- Genetics and epigenetics of congenital hypothyroidism -- Hypothyroidism -- Hyperthyroidism -- Adult thyroid disease -- Hyperfunction -- Graves' disease -- Thyroiditis -- Toxic nodular goiter: toxic adenoma and toxic multinodular goiter -- Thyroid-stimulating hormone-induced hyperfunction -- Hyperthyroidism and trophoblastic disease -- Hypofunction -- Chronic thyroiditis -- Central hypothyroidism -- Conditions with variable effects -- Pregnancy -- Nonthyroidial illness syndrome -- Syndromes of resistance to thyroid hormone -- Cell transport defects -- Drugs -- Structural lesions -- Nontoxic diffuse and nodular goiter -- Solitary thyroid nodule -- Follicular cell thyroid cancer -- Papillary thyroid carcinoma -- Follicular carcinoma -- Medullary thyroid cancer.
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia : Saunders/Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2009
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 423 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 616.4/4; Thyroid gland -- Diseases -- Textbooks; Thyroid Diseases -- therapy; Thyroid Diseases -- physiopathology; Thyroïde -- Maladies -- Manuels d?enseignement supérieur; MEDICAL -- Endocrinology & Metabolism; Thyroid gland -- Diseases; Electronic books; Textbooks
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781437719697; 1437719694
• Related ISBNs: 9781416047452; 141604745X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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