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Book SynopsisThyroid Diseases: Clinical Fundamentals and Therapy provides a wide-ranging examination of all clinically significant areas of thyroid diseases. Underlying physiological principles are closely linked to the clinical situation and practical therapeutic interventions. The book examines the clinical course, therapy, and final outcome of thyroid diseases, particularly the bimodal and transient evolution of several thyroid diseases. It also discusses the medical, surgical, and radiometabolic therapy of thyroid diseases, stressing the pros and cons of each therapeutic modality.
More than 80 acknowledged experts from North America, Europe, and Japan have contributed to this exceptional reference volume, making it essential for physiologists, clinical endocrinologists, radiologists, researchers in nuclear medicine, oncologists, and radiotherapists.
Table of ContentsClassification: Classification of Thyroid Diseases (F. Monaco). Euthyroidism: Diffuse and Multinodular Nontoxic Goiter (J.T. Dunn). Hyperthyroidism: Diffuse Toxic Goiter (Basedow-Flajani-Graves' Disease) (S. Nagataki, H. Tamai, and S. Yamashita). Toxic Nodular Goiter (J. Orgiazzi and R. Mornex). Unusual Forms of Thyrotoxicosis (S. Mariotti, E. Macchia, and A. Pinchera). Iodine-Induced Thyrotoxicosis (L. Chiovato, P. Vitti, and A. Pinchera). Transient Hyperthyroidism (G. Napolitano and F. Monaco). TSH-Secreting Pituitary Adenomas (P. Beck-Peccoz and G. Faglia). Thyroid Crisis (F. Monaco and M.A. Satta). Hypothyroidism: Congenital Hypothyroidism and Screening (T.P. Foley, Jr). Adult Acquired Hypothyroidism (A. Ermans). Biosynthetic Defects in Thyroid Hormonogenesis (G. Medeiros-Neto). Pituitary and Hypothalmic Hypothyroidism (G. Faglia and P. Beck-Peccoz). Subclinical and Transient Hypothyroidism (M. D'Armiento). Hypothyroid Coma (F. Monaco and M.A. Satta). Resistance to Thyroid Hormones: Syndromes of Resistance to Thyroid Hormone (C.A. Meier and B.D. Weintraub). Thyroiditis: Acute Suppurative Thyroiditis (M. Centanni, S. Sciacchitano, and M. Andreoli). Subacute (De Quervain's) Thyroiditis (N. Amino and K. Takada). Chronic Thyroiditis (M. Izumi). Postpartum and Silent Thyroiditis (N. Amino). Tumors: The Thyroid Nodule (S.G. Jackson and L. Wartofsky). Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma (A.J. Van Herle and A.J. Lutz). Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma (M. Schlumberger). Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (M. Schlumberger, P. Gardet, and C. Parmentier). Ophthalmopathy: Graves' Ophthalmopathy: Diagnosis, Pathogenesis, Prognosis, Treatment (R. Mornex and J. Orgiazzi). Therapy: Medical Therapy (F. Monaco). Surgery in the Management of Thyroid Diseases (N.W. Thompson). Metabolic Radiotherapy of Thyroid Disease: General Principles (B. Shapiro and L. Troncone). The Metabolically Directed Radiotherapy of Hyperthyroidism with Radioiodine (B. Shapiro and L. Troncone). The Metabolically Directe
