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Eleventh Edition
Edited By
Henry Kronenberg, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Shlomo Melmed, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean, UCLA School of Medicine; Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Kenneth Polonsky, MD, Adolphus Busch Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
P. Reed Larsen, MD, FACP, FRCP, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Description
In your complex and dynamic field, it can be a struggle to continually integrate the latest scientific and clinical information into your
everyday patient care. The 11th Edition of this beloved reference is the solution! Leading authorities provide just the right blend of
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Audience
Primary: Endocrinologists
Contents
Section I: Hormones and Hormone Action
Chapter 1: Principles of Endocrinology?H. Kronenberg/S. Melmed/K. Polonsky/P.
Larsen
Chapter 2: The Endocrine Patient?D. Federman
Chapter 3: Genetic Control of Peptide Hormone Formation?J. Habener
Chapter 4: Mechanism of Action of Hormones that Act on Nuclear Receptors?M. Lazar
Chapter 5: Mechanism of Action of Hormones
that Act at the Cell Surface?A. Spiegel/C. Su/S. Taylor
Chapter 6: Laboratory Techniques for Recognition of Endocrine Disorders?G.
Klee
Section II: Hypothalamus and Pituitary
Chapter 7: (Classic) Neuroendocrinology?M. Low
Chapter 8: Anterior Pituitary?S. Melmed/D. Kleinberg
Chapter 9: Posterior Pituitary?A. Robinson
Section III:
Thyroid
Chapter 10: Thyroid Physiology and Diagnostic Evaluation of Patients with Thyroid Disorders?P. Larsen/T. Davies/M.
Schlumberger/I. Hay
Chapter 11: Thyrotoxicosis?T. Davies/P. Larsen
Chapter 12: Hypothyroidism and Thyroiditis?G.
Brent/T. Davies/P. Larsen
Chapter 13: Nontoxic Goiter and Thyroid Neoplasia?M. Schlumberger/I. Hay/S. Filetti
Section
IV: Adrenal Cortex and Endocrine Hypertension
Chapter 14: The Adrenal Cortex?P. Stewart
Chapter 15: Endocrine
Hypertension?W. Young
Section V: Reproduction
Chapter 16: The Physiology and Pathology of the Female
Reproductive Axis?S. Bulun/Y. Adashi
Chapter 17: Fertility Control: Current Approaches and Global Aspects?M. Kafrissen/E. Adashi/P.
Darney
Chapter 18: Disorders of the Testes and the Male Reproductive Tract?S. Bhasin
Chapter 19: Sexual Dysfunction
in Men and Women?S. Bhasin/W. Hellstrom/R. Rosen
Section VI: Endocrinology and the Life Span
Chapter
20: Endocrine Changes in Pregnancy?G. Braunstein
Chapter 21: Endocrinology of Fetal Development?D. Fisher
Chapter 22:
Disorders of Sex Differentiation?I. Hughes
Chapter 23: Normal and Aberrant Growth?E. Reiter/R. Rosenfeld
Chapter 24:
Puberty: Ontogeny, Neuroendocrinology, Physiology, and Disorders?D. Styne/M. Grumbach
Chapter 25: Hormones and Athletic Performance?C.
Strasburger/E. Ghigo/F. Lanfranco
Chapter 26: Endocrinology of Aging?S. Lamberts
Section VII: Mineral Metabolism
Chapter 27: Hormones and Disorders of Mineral Metabolism?F. Bringhurst/M. Demay/H. Kronenberg
Chapter 28:
Metabolic Bone Disease?L. Raisz/B. Kream/J. Lorenzo
Chapter 29: Kidney Stones?R. Monk/D. Bushinsky
Section VIII:
Disorders of Carbohydrates and Metabolism
Chapter 30: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus?J. Buse/K. Polonsky/C. Burant
Chapter 31: Type 1 Diabetes?G. Eisenbarth/K. Polonsky/J. Buse
Chapter 32: Complications of Diabetes Mellitus?M. Brownlee
Chapter 33: Glucose Homeostasis and Hypoglycemia?P. Cryer
Section IX: Body Fat and Lipid Metabolism
Chapter 34: Neuroendocrine Control of Appetite and Body Weight?J. Elmquist/R.
Cone
Chapter 35: Obesity?S. Klein
Chapter 36: Disorders of Lipid Metabolism?R. Mahley
Chapter 37: Endocrinology of HIV/AIDS?Grinspoon
Chapter 38: Gastrointestinal
Hormonal Disorders?D. Drucker
Section X: Polyendocrine Disorders
Chapter 39: Pathogenesis of Endocrine
Tumors?A. Arnold
Chapter 40: Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia?R. Gagel/S. Marx
Chapter 41: Immunoendocrinopathy Syndromes?G.
Eisenbarth/P. Gottlieb/Barker
Section XI: Paraendocrine and Neoplastic Syndromes
Chapter 42: Endocrine-Responsive
Cancer?R. Santen
Chapter 43: Hormonal Manifestations of Malignancy?G. Strewler
Chapter 44: Carcinoid Tumors, Carcinoid
Syndrome and Related Disorders?K. Qberg
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 1936 pages, publication date: OCT-2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-2911-3
ISBN-10: 1-4160-2911-7
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 25 Nov 2009
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