This extensively revised and updated edition of a popular and widely acclaimed work presents the latest scientific and clinical developments in thyroid disease. New topics include the clinical relevance of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS), broad coverage of autoimmune thyroid disease, and expanded coverage of thyroid cancer, including recombinant human TSH. Other chapters discuss thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy and postpartum, thyroid disease in children and the elderly, and the evaluation and management of nodular goiter. Diseases of the Thyroid, 2nd Edition, provides internists and family physicians, obstetricians and gynecologists, and endocrinologists alike with a highly readable guide to thyroid disorders and their clinical management.
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"...contains many excellent, up-to-date, informative, and clinically valuable chapters...very readable. .." -Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism "...a good book, of interest to all trainee endocrinologists and certainly of use as a vade mecum for established physicians with more than a passing interest in thyroid disease..." -New England Journal of Medicine "...integrates state-of-the-art science with sound clinical advice...essential reading for the general internist, but even the most experienced endocrinologists will find something new." -Netherlands Journal of Medicine "...an especially valuable reference for clinicians...recommend[ed]...for the personal library of any physician caring for patients with thyroid disorders." -Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal "This book would be an excellent purchase for any medical practitioner or health facility that treats people suffering from thyroid disease. It is concise, easy to use, and current. It is highly recommended as a resource for graduate level library collections supporting health or medical studies." - E-Streams "The chapters in this text are well organized and well written, and this book should be on the shelf as a reference text for those physicians treating and managing diseases of the thyroid." - Clinical Chemistry "This book would be an excellent purchase for any medical practitioner or health facility that treats people suffering from thyroid disease. It is concise, easy to use, and current. It is highly recommended as a resource for graduate level library collections supporting health or medical studies." -E-STREAMS "It would be a welcome addition to the library of an endocrinologist who wishes to be updated, in a user-friendly way, on the latest research advances in thyroidology." -TRENDS in Endocrinology and Metabolism
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In this second edition of his popular and widely acclaimed book, Lewis Braverman and a panel of international authorities have thoroughly updated and revised the first edition with fresh perspectives, many new authors, and the latest scientific and clinical developments in thyroid disease. New to this edition are the clinical relevance of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS), broad coverage of autoimmune thyroid disease, and expanded coverage of thyroid cancer, including recombinant human TSH. Other chapters discuss such important topics as thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy and postpartum, thyroid disease in children and the elderly, the evaluation and management of nodular goiter, the worldwide problem of iodine deficiency and its eradication, and environmental goitrogens. Authoritative and up-to-date, Diseases of the Thyroid, Second Edition, provides internists, family physicians, obstetricians and gynecologists, and endocrinologists alike with a highly readable guide not only to understanding thyroid disorders, but also to their optimal clinical management.
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The role of thyroid hormone (L-triiodothyronine, T3; L-tetraiodothyronine, T4; TH) in the regulation of diverse cellular activities, including normal growth and development, and in general metabolism, is well established (1-4). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
levothyroxine dose requirement, thionamide therapy, oral levothyroxine, levothyroxine therapy, symporter gene expression, levothyroxine administration, iodinated radiocontrast agents, euthyroid nodular, thyroid hormone receptor beta gene, thyroid hormonogenesis, generalized thyroid hormone resistance, mutant thyroid hormone receptors, patients with primary hypothyroidism, urinary iodine concentration, thyroid cancer risk, iatrogenic thyrotoxicosis, environmental goitrogens, oral iodized oil, nodular thyroid disease, underlying thyroid disease, thionamide drugs, thyroid microsomal antigen, primary thyroid lymphoma, destructive thyrotoxicosis, human thyroid cells Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clin Endocrinol Metab, Ann Intern Med, United States, Biol Chem, Clin Invest, Endocrinol Invest, Mol Endocrinol, New York, Nucl Med, Endocr Rev, Arch Intern Med, Acta Endocrinol, Proc Natl Acad Sci, Contemporary Endocrinology, Edition Edited, Humana Press Inc, Clin Chem, Radiat Res, Clin Exp Immunol, Nongenomic Actions of Thyroid Hormone, Biochem Biophys Res Commun, Boca Raton, Obstet Gynecol, Environmental Goitrogenesis, Mayo Clin Proc New!
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The role of thyroid hormone (L-triiodothyronine, T3; L-tetraiodothyronine, T4; TH) in the regulation of diverse cellular activities, including normal growth and development, and in general metabolism, is well established (1-4). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
levothyroxine dose requirement, thionamide therapy, oral levothyroxine, levothyroxine therapy, symporter gene expression, levothyroxine administration, iodinated radiocontrast agents, euthyroid nodular, thyroid hormone receptor beta gene, thyroid hormonogenesis, generalized thyroid hormone resistance, mutant thyroid hormone receptors, patients with primary hypothyroidism, urinary iodine concentration, thyroid cancer risk, iatrogenic thyrotoxicosis, environmental goitrogens, oral iodized oil, nodular thyroid disease, underlying thyroid disease, thionamide drugs, thyroid microsomal antigen, primary thyroid lymphoma, destructive thyrotoxicosis, human thyroid cells Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clin Endocrinol Metab, Ann Intern Med, United States, Biol Chem, Clin Invest, Endocrinol Invest, Mol Endocrinol, New York, Nucl Med, Endocr Rev, Arch Intern Med, Acta Endocrinol, Proc Natl Acad Sci, Contemporary Endocrinology, Edition Edited, Humana Press Inc, Clin Chem, Radiat Res, Clin Exp Immunol, Nongenomic Actions of Thyroid Hormone, Biochem Biophys Res Commun, Boca Raton, Obstet Gynecol, Environmental Goitrogenesis, Mayo Clin Proc New!
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- Environmental Goitrogenesis by Eduardo Gaitan on 5 pages
- Radiation and Thyroid Cancer by G. Thomas on 4 pages
- Research in Congenital Hypothyroidism (Nato Science Series: A:) by F. Delange on page 62, and page 81
- Congenital Hypothyroidism (Basic and clinical endocrinology) by Jean H. Dussault on page 62, and page 324
- Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention by David Schottenfeld on page 243, and page 259
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- Endocrine Physiology by Balint Kacsoh M.D. in Back Matter
- Endocrinology of Critical Disease (Contemporary Endocrinology) by K. Patrick Ober in Front Matter
- G Proteins, Receptors, and Disease (Contemporary Endocrinology) by Allen M. Spiegel in Front Matter
- Human Growth Hormone: Research and Clinical Practice (Contemporary Endocrinology) by Roy G. Smith in Front Matter
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