Research Catalog

Title

The thyroid and its diseases / Leslie J. DeGroot, P. Reed Larsen, Georg Hennemann ; with contributions by Edwin L. Kaplan.

Author

DeGroot, Leslie J.

Publication

New York : Churchill Livingstone, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Hennemann, Georg.
• Larsen, P. Reed.

Description

x, 793 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Goiter
• Thyroid Diseases
• Thyroid Gland > physiology
• Thyroid gland > Diseases

Note

• Rev. ed. of: The thyroid and its diseases / Leslie J. DeGroot [and others]. 5th ed. c1984.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Phylogeny, Ontogeny, Anatomy, and Metabolic Regulation of the Thyroid -- 2. Thyroid Hormone Synthesis and Secretion -- 3. Thyroid Hormone Transport, Cellular Uptake, Metabolism, and Molecular Action -- 4. Normal Physiology of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroidal System and Its Relation to the Neural System and Other Endocrine Glands -- 5. Effects of Drugs, Disease, and Other Agents on Thyroid Function; The Nonthyroidal Illness Syndrome -- 6. Evaluation of Thyroid Function in Health and in Disease -- 7. Autoimmunity to the Thyroid Gland -- 8. Hashimoto's Thyroiditis -- 9. Adult Hypothyroidism -- 10. Graves' Disease and the Manifestations of Thyrotoxicosis -- 11. Graves' Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment -- 12. Complications of Graves' Disease -- 13. Thyrotoxicosis of Other Etiologies -- 14. Thyroid Dysfunction in the Pregnant Patient -- 15. Ontogenesis of Thyroid Function. Thyroid Hormone and Brain Development, Diagnosis and Treatment of Congenital Hypothyroidism --
• 16. Genetic Defects of Thyroid Hormone Supply, Transport, and Action -- 17. Multinodular Goiter -- 18. Thyroid Neoplasia -- 19. Acute and Subacute Thyroiditis -- 20. Iodine Deficiency Disorders -- 21. Surgery of the Thyroid Gland.

ISBN

0443088950

LCCN

95036116

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries