Thyroid Disease in Clinical Practice
physieal and mental can distort thyroid func Thyroid diseases are common. They indude hyper- and hypothyroidism, enlargement of tion tests so that thyroid dysfunction is dia the gland both diffuse and nodular, solitary gnosed inappropriately. This is addressed in nodules both benign and malignant,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1992, 1992
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1992 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Thyroid structure, development and developmental abnormalities
- 2 Thyroid physiology
- 3 Tests of thyroid function
- 4 Clinical examination
- 5 Hyperthyroidism
- 6 Hypothyroidism
- 7 Management of thyroid nodules
- 8 Thyroid cancer
- 9 Thyroiditis
- 10 Simple goitre (non-endemic, non-toxic goitre) and multinodular goitre
- 11 Iodine deficiency disorders, endemic goitre and endemic cretinism
- 12 Changes in thyroid function tests in physical and psychiatric diseases
- 13 Radiation and the thyroid