BookPeter Igaz, editor.
Summary: This practical book aims to cover the whole scope of clinical endocrinology, including both common and selected rare but important diseases, with an emphasis on practical clinical management. A number of different questions and problems in clinical routine are discussed in this book in an unconventional format. Each topic begins with the presentation of a typical clinical case, and then the topic is approached in a question and answer format linked to the clinical case presented, highlighting the most important questions in diagnosis, differential diagnosis and therapy. Numerous figures and tables are included to help understanding. The book is chiefly intended for doctors in training (preparing for boarding exam in endocrinology or internal medicine), but also for established clinicians who want to broaden or refresh their skills. University students of medicine can also find this book interesting.
Contents:
Diseases of the pituitary and hypothalamus: Pituitary tumors
Craniopharyngeoma
Hypopituitarism
Secondary hypogonadism/Kallmann syndrome
Diabetes insipidus
Diseases of the thyroid: Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto thyroiditis
Graves-disease
Endocrine ophtalmopathy
Multinodular goiter
de Quervain thyroiditis
Thyroid cancer
Thyroid hormone resistance.-Diseases of the parathyroid and metabolic bone diseases: Primary hyperparathyroidism
Secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism
Hypoparathyroidism.-Parathyroid cancer.-Osteoporosis.-Osteomalacia
Diseases of the adrenal: Adrenal incidentaloma
Adrenal Cushings syndrome
Primary aldosteronism
Secondary aldosteronism due to renovascular hypertension
Adrenocortical cancer
Addisons disease and pluriglandular autoimmune syndrome type 2
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Glucocorticoid resistance
Pheochromocytoma
Diseases of the gonads: Ovary
Testicle
Neuroendocrine tumors and Paraneoplastic endocrine syndromes: Carcinoid syndrome caused by a small intestinal neuroendocrine tumor
Ectopic ACTH syndrome caused by a bronchial neuroendocrine tumor
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndromes: Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 2
von Hippel Lindau syndrome
Neurofibromatosis type 1
Familial Isolated Pituitary Adenoma
McCune-Albright syndrome .