Medical Management of Thyroid Disease, Second Edition

by Cooper; David S.

• ISBN13: 9781420070644
• ISBN10: 1420070649
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-09
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

For general practitioners and endocrinologists, the new Second Edition of this bestselling book offers the most up-to-date and practical guidance to diagnose and manage common and uncommon thyroid diseases.New to the Second Edition:information on thyroid neoplasia, leading to new effective treatments of advanced thyroid cancer the latest VEGF-inhibiting drugs, opening avenues of targeted therapy not previously available new research on thyroid physiology, pathophysiology, and therapeuticsThe new edition is fully evidence-based and updated to include the most current treatment and latest findings:the screening and case finding for thyroid disease the use of calcitonin in the diagnosis of medullary thyroid cancer the diagnosis and management of subclinical hyperthyroidism (mild hyperthyroidism) thyroid disease related to interferon therapy and amiodarone therapy

Author Biography

about the editor. . . David S. Cooper is Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Professor of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Physician and Director, the Thyroid Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Dr. Cooper received his M.D. from Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is a member of the Endocrine Society and is a past president of the American Thyroid Association. Dr. Cooper is currently Deputy Editor of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Editor-in-Chief of Endocrinology, Up-to-Date, and Contributing Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Dr. Cooper was also the editor of the first edition of Informa Healthcare's Medical Management of Thyroid Disease.

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition	p. iii
Preface	p. v
Contributors	p. ix
The Laboratory Approach to Thyroid Disorders	p. 1
Hyperthyroidism Due to Graves' Disease, Toxic Nodules and Toxic Multinodular Goiter	p. 39
Thyroiditis and Other More Unusual Forms of Hyperthyroidism	p. 101
Hypothyroidism	p. 145
Thyroid Nodules and Multinodular Goiter	p. 203
Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma	p. 237
Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma, Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma, and Thyroid Lymphoma	p. 297
Pediatric Thyroid Disorders	p. 331
Thyroid Disease and Pregnancy	p. 369
Thyroid Disease in the Elderly	p. 401
Index	p. 439
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