Comprehensive Clinical Endocrinology, Including CD-ROM

Comprehensive Clinical Endocrinology, 3/e is the new, fully revised edition of the successful book on Clinical Endocrinology 2/e, published in 1994, expanded to cover diabetes in great detail. With greatly increased clinical detail on each condition and new clinical treatment plans to assist in the long-term treatment of patients, this book will contain all you need to know about every endocrine condition. Full colour throughout will make Comprehensive Clinical Endocrinology an attractive book, and the completely re-drawn line illustrations will enhance the detailed text.
Key Features

* Covers all endocrine disorders in detail, including diabetes.
* Features more than 250 superb, full-color line drawings, all updated and redrawn for this edition, plus 250 two-color illustrations and CD - Rom.
* Provides 20-40 carefully selected key references in each chapter, rather than cumbersome lists of 200 or more.

New to this Edition

* Covers diabetes in great detail, making it an all - in - one clinical reference for disorders and diseases of the endocrine system.
* Emphasizes practical, clinical detail throughout, and discusses basic science where relevant.
* Includes Therapeutic Plan algorithms for every condition that show the various treatment options for patient care.
* Discusses diagnostic procedures in greater detail, giving clearer guidance on diagnosis of complex conditions.
* Features concise Patient Perspectives sections, providing details on the effects these conditions have on the patient, both psychological and physical.

Table of Contents

I. Hypothalamus and Pituitary
1. Neuroendocrine Control of Pituitary Function
2. Control of Pituitary Hormone Secretion: Role of Pulsatility
3. Hypopituitarism - Pituitary Disease and Intrinsic Hypothalamic Disease including Mass Lesions
4. Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults
5. Acromegaly and Giantism
6. Hyperprolactinaemia
7. Posterior Pituitary
8. Pituitary Surgery
9. Pituitary Radiotherapy


II. Thyroid
10. Thyroid Physiology
11. Hypothyroidism
12. Thyroid Nodular Disease and Carcinoma of the Thyroid
13. Hyperthyroidism and Graves’ Diseases


III. Adrenal
14. Adrenal Cortex Physiology
15. Cushing’s Syndrome
16. Addison’s Disease
17. Adrenal Cortex: Renin-Angiotensin System in Adrenocortical Hypertension
18. Adrenal Medulla, Physiology and Pathology


IV. Control of Blood Glucose and its Disturbance
19. Physiologic Mechanisms in Homeostatic Control of Glucose
20. Hypoglycemia and Insulinomas
21. Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
22. Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus


V. Gonad
23. Normal and Abnormal Puberty
24. Testis
25. Prostate
26. Ovary


VI. General Conditions - Basic
27. Hormones and Tumorogenesis
28. Hormone Assay Techniques
29. Molecular Biology and Cell Signaling in Endocrine Systems


VII. General Conditions - Clinical
30. Lipids and Lipoproteins
31. Cardiovascular and Vascular Hormones
32. Calcium and Common Bone Disorders
33. Endocrinology of the Gastrointestinal Tract
34. Familial Endocrine Syndromes
35. Ectopic Humoral Syndromes
36. Obesity and Satiety
37. Psychiatric and Behavior Changes and Endocrine Function
38. Endocrinology of the Fetus, Pregnancy, and the Placenta
39. Breast


VIII: Imaging
40. Neuroradiology and Endocrine Disease
41. General Radiology of Endocrine Disease
42. Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Disease


IX. Patient Perspectives
43. Patient Perspectives on Endocrine Diseases – Representatives of Patient Support Groups for:
43.1 Pituitary Disease
43.2 Thyroid Disease
43.3 Thyroid Eye Disease
43.4 Cushing’s Disease
43.5 Addison’s Disease
43.6 Disorders of Sexual Development in
General, including Hyperplasia,
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome,
Klenfelter Syndrome, CAH
43.7 GHD in Children and Adults