Werner & Ingbar's the thyroid: a fundamental and clinical text

The most comprehensive textbook on the thyroid appears in an extensively revised 10th edition. This classic text provides comprehensive coverage of every aspect of thyroid anatomy, development, biochemistry, physiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of all thyroid disorders. This edition has a more international group of contributors and new chapters on surgical management of thyroid cancer, thyroid disrupters and thyroid hormone analogs. Chapters address clinical controversies regarding subclinical hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism"

The heritage of the thyroid: a brief history -- Development of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis -- Anatomy and pathology of the thyrotrophs -- Thyroid hormone synthesis: thyroid iodide transport -- Thyroid hormone synthesis -- Thyroglobulin structure, function, and biosynthesis -- Thyroid hormone transport proteins and the physiology of hormone binding -- Intracellular pathways of iodothyronine metabolism/implications of deiodination for thyroid hormone action -- Genomic and nongenomic actions of thyroid hormones -- Thyroid hormones structure-function relationships -- Chemistry and biosynthesis of thyrotropin -- The thyrotropin receptor -- Regulation of thyrotropin secretion -- Age related changes in thyroid function -- Effects of drugs on TSH secretion, thyroid hormones absorption, synthesis, metabolism, and action -- Nonthyroidal illness syndrome -- Iodine deficiency and endemic cretinism -- Effect of excess iodide: clinical aspects -- Thyroid radionuclide uptake and imaging studies -- Measuring serum thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyroid hormones, thyroid-directed antibodies, and transport proteins -- Measurement of thyroglobulin -- Nonisotopic techniques of thyroid imagi…