ENDOCRINOLOGY ADULT AND PEDIATRIC : THE THYROID GLAND / Volume Editor Lesli J. De Groot

Includes bibliographical references and index

Anatomy and Development of the Thyroid -- Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone : Physiology and Secretion -- Thyroid Regulatory Factors -- Thyroid Hormone Metabolism -- Mechanisms of Thyroid Hormone Action -- Thyroid Function Testing -- Thyroid Imaging Autoimmune Thyroid Disease -- Graves' Disease -- Graves' Ophthalmopathy -- Autonomously Functioning Thyroid Nodules and Other Causes of Thyrotoxicosis -- Chronic (Hashimoto's) Thyroiditis -- Subacute and Riedel's Thyroiditis -- Hypothyroidism and Myxedema Coma -- Nonthyroidal Illness Syndrome : A Form of Hypothyroidism -- Multinodular Goiter -- Iodine Deficiency Disorders -- Thyroid Neoplasia -- Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma and Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2 -- Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Receptor Mutations -- Genetic Defects in Thyroid Hormone Synthesis and Action -- Thyroid Hormone Binding and Variants of Transport Proteins -- Resistance to Thyroid Hormone -- Surgery of the Thyroid -- Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy.

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