Oxford Textbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes

PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL ENDOCRINE PRACTICE; Measurement of circulating hormones; Standard protocols for endocrine emergencies; Standard protocols for diabetic emergencies; Endocrine autoimmunity; Endocrinology and evolution: the future of; Population endocrinology; Prevention in endocrinology (e.g. screening and iodine); Inherited susceptibility to endocrine and metabolic; Molecular biology for the endocrine clinician; Molecular aspects of hormonal regulation; Endocrine units; Diabetes centres (collaboration and improved results); Clinical physiology of the endocrine system; CLINICAL NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; Clinical anterior pituitary anatomy physiology; Genetic and acquired hypopituitarism; Glucocorticoid/thyroid/sex steroids; GH deficiency in adults and its treatment; Molecular pathogenesis of pituitary tumours; Clinically non-functioning pituitary tumours; Thyrotrophinomas; Pituitary incidentalomas; Pituitary carcinomas; Pituitary assessment strategy; Imaging of the pituitary and the hypothalamus; Histopathology of pituitary tumours; Transphenoidal surgery and other pituitary surgery; Pituitary radiotherapy; Prolactinomas; Acromegaly and gigantism; Cushing's disease (including children); Hypothalamic syndromes; Craniopharyngiomas; Cysts, hamartomas and vascular tumours; Perisellar tumours; Inflammatory lesions (sarcoid, histiocystosis etc.); Pineal pathophysiology: anatomy and physiology); Pineal pathophysiology: melatonin; Pineal tumours; Neuroendocrine dysfunction in anxiety/depression etc; Endocrinology and alcoholism; Anorexia, bulimia and the neuroendocrinology of eating disorders; Pre-menstrual neuroendocrinology; Neuropsychoendocrinology: stress pains and opioids; Neuropsychoendorinology: sexual differentiation; THYROID; Biosynthesis, transport, metabolism and actions; Clinical assessment of the thyroid patient; Thyroid function tests and effects of drugs; Non-thyroidal illness; Thyroid imaging: nuclear medicine techniques; Nonisotopic techniques for thyroid imaging; Epidemiology of thyroid disease and swelling; Genetic factors relating to the thyroid; Disorders of iodine deficiency; Disorders of iodine excess; Radiation induced thyroid disease; Autoimmune thyroid disease; Thyroiditis (acute, subacute, chronic, fibrosis); Clinical measurement and systemic manifestations; Management of thyrotoxicosis without hyperthyroidism; Thyrotoxic storm; Subclinical hyperthyroidism; Thyrotoxicosis and periodic paralysis; Causes and laboratory investigations of thyrotoxicosis; Radioiodine treatment of thyrotoxicosis; Surgery for thyrotoxicosis; Management of Grave's hyperthyroidism; Grave's ophthalmopathy; Management of toxic multinodular goitre and; Clinical assessment and systemic manifestations of; Causes and laboratory investigations of hypothyroidism; Treatment of hypothyroidism; Myxoedema coma; Subclinical hypothyroidism; Thyroid disease during pregnancy; Thyroid disease after pregnancy (postpartum thyroiditis); Thyroid disease in new-borns, infants and children; Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome; Pathogenesis of non-toxic goitre; Management of non-toxic goitre; Management of single thyroid nodule; Pathogenesis of thyroid cancer; Pathology of thyroid cancer; Papillary, follicular and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma; Medullary thyroid carcinoma; PARATHYROID, CALCIUM AND BONE METABOLISM; Osteoporosis; Thyroid disease and osteoporosis; Hypercalcaemic and hypocalcaemic syndromes; Hypercalcaemia; Parathyroid diseases (adenoma, hyperplasia etc); Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia (FHH); Molecular genetics of disorder of calcium homeostasis; Hypoparathyroid and pseudohypoparathyroid disorders; Rickets and osteomalacia (inherited and acquired); Paget's disease; Bone dysplasias (including osteogenesis imperfecta); THE ADRENAL GLAND; Molecular genetics of adrenal tumours; Addison's syndrome; CRF, ACTH and glucocorticoid resistance syndromes; Adrenal imaging; Adrenal surgery; Incidentalomas; Phaeochromocytomas and neuroblastomas; Primary hyperaldosteronism; Dexamethasone suppressible hypertension; Apparent mineralocorticoid excess-11; Cushing's syndrome (including children); THE DIFFUSE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM AND THEIR HORMONES; MEN-1 syndrome; MEN-2 syndrome; Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome; McCune Albright syndrome; Cowden's syndrome; Neurofibromatosis; Carney Complex; Tumour markers; Insulinomas and hypoglycaemia; Glucagonoma; Gastrinoma; Vipomas; Somatostatinomas; Carcinoid syndrome; Mastocytosis; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT DURING CHILDHOOD; Childhood endocrinology; Sexual determination and differentiation; Common neonatal endocrine disorders: hypoglycaemia; Common neonatal endocrine disorders: ambiguous..; Differential diagnosis of short stature/ poor growth; Genetic defects of GH-IGF-IGFBP axis; Investigation of the poorly growing child; Management of short stature; Growth-promoting agents for non-GH deficient children; Tall stature; Precocious/ early puberty (including adrenarche); Delayed puberty/ CDGP-hypogonadism; Congenital adrenal hyperplasia; FEMALE ENDOCRINOLOGY; Hormonal contraception; Premenstrual syndrome; Menopause; Primary ovarian failure; Nutrition and reproduction; Disorders of gonadotrophin secretion; Hyperprolactinaemic anovulation; Polycystic ovary syndrome: reproductive aspects; Polycystic ovary syndrome: metabolic aspects; Hirsutism; Infertility; Conception and implantation; Maternal foetal-placental unit; Parturition; Trophoblastic disease; Breast development, breast disease, and lactation; Endocrine disease in pregnancy (including diabetes); Hormone-secreting ovarian and adrenal tumours; MALE ENDOCRINOLOGY; Environmental influences on male reproductive health; Steroid abuse and male reproductive health; Male mortality and male reproductive health; The male gamete: spermatogenesis, maturation; Endocrine and local testicular regulation; Testicular hormones (testosterone, inhibin, activin); Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: clinical appearance; Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: endocrine evaluation; Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: semen analysis; Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: sonography; Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: cytogenetics; Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: testicular biopsy; Congenital anorchia, acquired anorchia; Sequelae of extratesticular diseases; Testicular tumours and male gonadal function; Infections/ inflammation, obstructions; Idiopathic infertility; Disturbed spermatogenesis, spermatogenetic arrest; Klinefelter syndrome, XX male, XYY male; Treatment of hypogonadism and infertility; Assisted reproduction (insemination, IVF, ICSI); Cryopreservation of sperm; Sexuality and erectile dysfunction; Gynaecomastia; Transsexulaism; Male contraception; HORMONE ASSOCIATIONS OF AGEING AND SYSTEMIC DISEASE; Endocrinology of the menopause and hormone; Androgen misuse and abuse; Adrenal function and DHEAS; Ageing and thyroid disease; Bone disease in the elderly; The prostate; Hormones and the kidney; Hormones and liver disease; Endocrinology in the critically ill; Endocrinology of AIDS; Immunoendocrinopathies; Metastases in endocrine organs; Ectopic hormone syndromes; Endocrine function after chemotherapy; Endocrine therapy of breast cancer; Endocrine therapy of prostatic carcinoma; Neuroendocrine tumours; METABOLIC DISORDERS; Plasma lipoprotein metabolism; Familial hypercholesterolemia; Genetic hypertriglyceridemias; Familial dysbetalipoproteinemia; Lipoprotein (a); Hypolipoproteinemias; Other disorders of sterol metabolism; Clinical approach to the dyslipidemic patient; Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism; Disorders of amino acid metabolism; Hemochromatosis; The human porphyrias; Pharmacogenetics; Obesity as a health problem (including epidemiology); Obesity genes (leptin, leptin receptors, lipolysis); Pathophysiology and psychosocial aspects of obesity; Clinical management of obesity; DIABETES MELLITUS; Diabetic nephropathy; Diabetic neuropathy; Pregnancy and diabetes; Macrovascular disease; The diabetic foot; The metabolic syndrome; Organisation of diabetes care; Future trends in diabetes care: prevention; Future trends in diabetes care: treatment; Future trends in diabetes care: transplantation; Genetic engineering; Type 1 diabetes: genetics; Type 1 diabetes: aetiology; Type 1 diabetes: immunology; Type 2 diabetes: genetics and epidemiology; Type 2 diabetes: aetiology; Treatment of type 1 diabetes; Treatment of type 2 diabetes; Hypoglycaemia; Diabetic ketoacidosis: paediatric, esp. DKA; Diabetic ketoacidosis: adult, inc. HONK; Vascular complications: abnormalities; Vascular complications: molecular basis; Diabetic retinopathy; Thyroid imaging: nuclear medicine techniques; Nonisotopic techniques for thyroid imaging; Epidemiology of thyroid disease and swelling; Genetic factors relating to the thyroid; Disorders of iodine deficiency; Disorders of iodine excess; Radiation induced thyroid disease; Autoimmune thyroid disease; Thyroiditis (acute, subacute, chronic, fibrosis); Clinical measurement and systemic manifestations; Management of thyrotoxicosis without hyperthyroidism; Thyrotoxic storm; Subclinical hyperthyroidism; Thyrotoxicosis and periodic paralysis; Causes and laboratory investigations of thyrotoxicosis; Radioiodine treatment of thyrotoxicosis; Surgery for thyrotoxicosis; Management of Grave's hyperthyroidism; Grave's ophthalmopathy; Management of toxic multinodular goitre and; Clinical assessment and systemic manifestations of; Causes and laboratory investigations of hypothyroidism; Treatment of hypothyroidism; Myxoedema coma; Subclinical hypothyroidism; Thyroid disease during pregnancy; Thyroid disease after pregnancy (postpartum thyroiditis); Thyroid disease in new-borns, infants and children; Thyroid disease in new-borns, infants and children; Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome; Pathogenesis of non-toxic goitre; Management of non-toxic goitre; Management of single thyroid nodule; Pathogenesis of thyroid cancer; Pathology of thyroid cancer; Papillary, follicular and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma; Medullary thyroid carcinoma; PARATHYROID, CALCIUM AND BONE METABOLISM; Osteoporosis; Thyroid disease and osteoporosis; Hypercalcaemic and hypocalcaemic syndromes; Hypercalcaemia; Parathyroid diseases (adenoma, hyperplasia etc); Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia (FHH); Molecular genetics of disorder of calcium homeostasis; Hypoparathyroid and pseudohypoparathyroid disorders; Rickets and osteomalacia (inherited and acquired); Paget's disease; Bone dysplasias (including osteogenesis imperfecta); THE ADRENAL GLAND; Molecular genetics of adrenal tumours; Addison's syndrome; CRF, ACTH and glucocorticoid resistance syndromes; Adrenal imaging