Werner & Ingbar's The Thyroid: A Fundamental and Clinical Text

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Lewis E. Braverman, David S. Cooper
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Oct 8, 2012 - Medical - 912 pages
"The most comprehensive textbook on the thyroid appears in an extensively revised 10th edition. This classic text provides comprehensive coverage of every aspect of thyroid anatomy, development, biochemistry, physiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of all thyroid disorders. This edition has a more international group of contributors and new chapters on surgical management of thyroid cancer, thyroid disrupters and thyroid hormone analogs. Chapters address clinical controversies regarding subclinical hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism"--Provided by publisher.
 

Contents

THE NORMAL THYROID
1
Chapter
14
Anatomy and Pathology of the Thyrotrophs
24
PART B THYROID HORMONE SYNTHESIS AND SECRETION
32
Chapter 4B Thyroid Hormone Synthesis
48
Chapter 19
69
Thyroglobulin Structure Function and Biosynthesis
74
PERIPHERAL THYROID HORMONE BINDING
93
Thyrotoxic Storm
481
217
486
242
502
297
512
Subclinical Thyrotoxicosis
516
Genetic Defects Causing Hypothyroidism
535
Primary Hypothyroidism Due to Other Causes
552
PART B ORGAN SYSTEM MANIFESTATIONS OF HYPOTHYROIDISM
569

Intracellular Pathways of Iodothyronine Metabolism
103
THYROID HORMONE ACTION
127
Thyroid Hormone StructureFunction Relationships
138
PART E FACTORS THAT CONTROL THYROID FUNCTION
149
Anthony N Hollenberg
169
Nonthyroidal Illness Syndrome
203
ASSESSMENT OF THYROID STRUCTURE
257
THYROTOXICOSIS
354
Toxic Adenoma and Toxic Multinodular Goiter
400
Trophoblastic Tumors
409
169
425
Thyrotoxicosis of Extrathyroid Origin
429
Thyroid Hormones in Thermogenesis Intermediary
450
187
456
203
467
The Skeletal System in Thyrotoxicosis
468
The Male and Female Reproductive System
582
Psychiatric and Cognitive Effects of Hypothyroidism
596
Treatment of Hypothyroidism
611
Subclinical Hypothyroidism
628
Clinical Evaluation and Management of Thyroid Nodules
649
THYROID CANCERS
665
Chapter 50B Molecular Genetics of Tumors of Thyroid Follicular Cells
681
Surgical Therapy
702
Chapter 50E Medical Management of Differentiated Epithelial Cell
725
Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
744
Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer and Miscellaneous Tumors
765
Hyperthyroidism in the Neonatal Period and Childhood
803
Thyroid Disruptors
835
Index
875
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