Ebook: Medical management of thyroid disease
Author: Cooper David S (ed.)
- Genre: Mathematics
- Tags: Thyroid gland -- Diseases., Thyroid Diseases -- therapy., Thyroid Diseases -- diagnosis.
- Series: Online access with DDA: Askews (Medicine)
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Informa Healthcare
- City: London, New York
- Edition: 2nd ed
- Language: English
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Abstract: This title offers practical guidance to diagnose and manage common and uncommon thyroid diseases. Organised by disease, it covers the practical management and treatment of thyroid disease from hyper-and hypothyroidism, thyroid nodules and goiters, thyroid cancer to thyroid disease in special populations.
For general practitioners and endocrinologists, the new Second Edition of this bestselling book offers the most up-to-date and practical guidance to diagnose and manage common and uncommon thyroid diseases. New to the Second Edition: information on thyroid neoplasia, leading to new effective treatments of advanced thyroid cancer the latest VEGF-inhibiting drugs, opening avenues of targeted therapy not previously available new research on thyroid physiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutics The new edition is fully evidence-based and updated to include the most current treatment and latest findings: the screening and case finding for thyroid disease the use of calcitonin in the diagnosis of medullary thyroid cancer the diagnosis and management of subclinical hyperthyroidism (mild hyperthyroidism) thyroid disease related to interferon therapy and amiodarone therapy