Williams textbook of endocrinology /

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Edition:Thirteenth edition.
Imprint:Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, [2016]
©2016
Description:1 online resource () : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11900308
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Varying Form of Title:Textbook of endocrinology
Other authors / contributors:Melmed, Shlomo, editor.
Polonsky, Kenneth S., editor.
Larsen, P. Reed, editor.
Kronenberg, Henry, editor.
ISBN:0323341578
9780323341578
9780323297387
0323297382
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from resource home page (ClinicalKey, viewed December 11, 2015).
Other form:Print version: Williams textbook of endocrinology. 13th edition. Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, [2016] 9780323297387
Table of Contents:
  • Principles of endocrinology
  • Clinical endocrinology : a personal view
  • Principles of hormone action
  • Genetics of endocrinology
  • Health care reform, population health, and the endocrinologist
  • Laboratory techniques for recognition of endocrine disorders
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • Pituitary physiology and diagnostic evaluation
  • Pituitary masses and tumors
  • Posterior pituitary
  • Thyroid physiology and diagnostic evaluation of patients with thyroid disorders
  • Hyperthyroid disorders
  • Hypothyroidism and thyroiditis
  • Nontoxic diffuse goiter, nodular thyroid disorders, and thyroid malignancies
  • The adrenal cortex
  • Endocrine hypertension
  • Physiology and pathology of the female reproductive axis
  • Hormonal contraception
  • Testicular disorders
  • Sexual dysfunction in men and women
  • Endocrine changes in pregnancy
  • Endocrinology of fetal development
  • Pediatric disorders of sex development
  • Normal and aberrant growth in children
  • Physiology and disorders of puberty
  • Hormones and athletic performance
  • Endocrinology and aging
  • Hormones and disorders of mineral metabolism
  • Osteoporosis and bone biology
  • Kidney stones
  • Type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Type 1 diabetes mellitus
  • Complications of diabetes mellitus
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Neuroendocrine control of energy stores
  • Obesity
  • Disorders of lipid metabolism
  • Gastrointestinal hormones and gut endocrine tumors
  • Multiple endocrine neoplasia
  • The immunoendocrinopathy syndromes
  • Endocrinology of hiv/aids
  • The long-term endocrine sequelae of multimodality cancer therapy
  • Neuroendocrine gastrointestinal and lung tumors (carcinoid tumors), the carcinoid syndrome, and related disorders.