Practical Clinical Endocrinology

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.

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 Cushing's syndrome -- Primary aldosteronism -- Secondary aldosteronism due to renovascular hypertension -- Adrenocortical cancer -- Addison's 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 tu…