Thyroid Disorders with Cutaneous Manifestations

by Heymann, Warren R.

• ISBN13: 9781848001862
• ISBN10: 184800186X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

"Thyroid Disorders with Cutaneous Manifestations is a single authoritative resource enabling physicians to comprehend the basic science, laboratory evaluation, epidemiology, and clinical aspects of thyroid diseases and their cutaneous manifestations. Internationally recognized experts have contributed to this comprehensive text, with an unique "editorial perspective" written for each chapter by the Editors which offers a coherent thread to this book's narrative so that the scope, complexity, and relevance of this text is further understood and appreciated."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Anatomy and Embryology of the Thyroid Gland	p. 1
Hormones	p. 7
Classification and Epidemiology of Thyroid Disease	p. 13
Laboratory Diagnosis of Thyroid Disease	p. 23
Thyroglossal Duct Cysts	p. 37
Thyroid Cancer and the Skin	p. 43
Chromosomes, Genes, and the Thyroid Gland	p. 55
Cutaneous Manifestations of Hyperthyroidism	p. 73
Cutaneous Manifestations of Hypothyroidism	p. 89
Pretibial Myxedema (Thyroid Dermopathy)	p. 103
Alopecia and Thyroid Disease	p. 121
Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria and Thyroid Disease	p. 145
Dermatologic Disorders Associated with Thyroid Disease	p. 157
Potential Therapeutic Uses of Thyroid Hormone	p. 181
Index	p. 187
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