Thyroid disease: a case-based and practical guide for primary care

✍ Scribed by Brams, Emanuel O

Publisher: Humana Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 169
Series: Current clinical practice
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Thyroid Disease: A Case-Based and Practical Guide for Primary Care is designed to help primary care doctors diagnose and manage patients with thyroid disease in the office. It includes case studies to illustrate the problems and discussions of how to go about testing, arrive at a diagnosis, and initiate treatment and follow up evaluations. Part I presents cases illustrating the more common thyroid problems seen in Read more...

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Thyroid Disease: A Case-Based and Practical Guide for Primary Care, by Dr. Emanuel Brams, is a supremely readable cased-based approach to understanding the myriad of disorders that encompass thyroid Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Foreword vii --
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
Part 1. Physiology, testing, and common thyroid disorders --
Introduction --
Thyroid testing and imaging --
Graves' disease --
Other causes of hyperthyroidism --
Thyroid ophthalmopathy --
Hypothyroidism --
Subclinical thyroid disease --
Hashimoto's thyroiditis --
Thyroid disease in pregnancy and post partum --
Thyroid disease in children and adolescents --
Thyroid nodules and cancer --
Management of thyroid cancer patients --
Part 2. Challenging thyroid disorders and current controversies --
Challenging cases of hyperthyroidism --
Treatment of Graves' disease: a personal perspective --
Iatrogenic hyperthyroidism --
Final thoughts --
Index.

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