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Practical management of thyroid cancer : a multidisciplinary approach

Title
Practical management of thyroid cancer : a multidisciplinary approach / Ernest L. Mazzaferri [and others] (eds.).
Publication
London : Springer, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors
Mazzaferri, Ernest L., 1936-2013.
Description
xv, 445 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Subject
  • Thyroid gland > Cancer
  • Thyroid gland > Treatment
  • Thyroid Neoplasms
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
An overview of the management of thyroid cancer -- The UK evidence-based guidelines for the management of thyroid cancer: key recommendations -- Thyroid cancer multidisciplinary team and the organisational paradigm -- Thyroid cancer form the perspective of a patient -- The role of the specialist nurse -- The role of the clinical psychologist -- Thyroid nodules -- Thyroid cancer and the general practitioner -- The role of pathologist -- Thyroid cancer and the endocrinologist -- The specialist endocrine surgeon -- Initial thyroid surery for patient with differentiated thyroid carcinoma -- Management of cervical lymph nodes in differentiated thyroid cancer -- Complications of thyroid surgery -- Non-surgical management of thyroid cancer -- Fertility following treatment with iodine-131 for thyroid cancer -- Recombinant human TSH (rhTSH): use in papillary and follicular thyroid cancer -- Thyroglobulin -- Follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma --- Management of differentiated thyroid carcinoma patients with negative whole-body radioiodine scans and elevated serum thyroglobulin levels -- Medullary thyroid cancer: diagnosis and management -- Nonmedullary thyroid cancer and the role of the geneticist -- Thyroid cancer in childhood -- Radiation-induced thyroid cancer: lessons from Chernobyl -- The use of stable potassium iodide (KI) in the event of a nuclear emergency -- Ultrasound of the thyroid -- Diagnostic nuclear medicine investigations in the management of thyroid cancer -- CT and MRI in thyroid cancer -- Papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid -- Rare thyroid cancers -- Management of anaplastic thyroid cancer -- Specialist palliative care for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma -- Emerging therapies for thyroid cancer -- Clinical trials for thyroid carcinoma: past, present, and future.
ISBN
  • 1852339101 (hbk.)
  • 1846280133 (e-book)
LCCN
  • 2005924409
  • 9781852339104 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • ocm62089359
  • SCSB-5227769
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries