The thyroid and its diseases
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
John Wiley & Sons,
©1984
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| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
| Series: | A Wiley medical publication.
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Table of Contents:
- The phylogeny, ontogeny, anatomy, and metabolic regulation of the thyroid.
- Hormone synthesis, secretion, and action.
- Physiology of the hypothalamus, pituitary, and thyroid.
- Effects of drugs and other agents and diseases on the thyroid.
- Evaluation of thyroid function in health and in disease.
- Graves' disease and the manifestations of thyrotoxicosis.
- Graves' disease: diagnosis and treatment.
- Graves' disease: complications.
- Hashimoto's thyroiditis: a disease of autoimmunity.
- Adult hypothyroidism.
- Hypothyroidism in infants and children, and developmental abnormalities of the thyroid gland.
- Endemic goiter and related disorders.
- Hereditary defects in hormone synthesis, transport, and action.
- Acute and subacute thyroiditis.
- Multinodular goiter.
- Thyroid neoplasia.
- Role of the thyroid in nonthyroidal lllnesses.
- Surgery of the thyroid gland.