Thyroid Disease A Case-Based and Practical Guide for Primary Care /

• Main Author: Brams, Emanuel O. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2005.
• Series: Current Clinical Practice
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

Although thyroid disease is common in the population and accounts for 3-5% of primary care visits, many primary care physicians find it confusing because of its nonspecific symptomology. In Thyroid Disease: A Case-Based and Practical Guide for Primary Care, Emanuel Brams, MD, draws on his extensive...

Table of Contents:

• Physiology, Testing, and Common Thyroid Disorders
• Thyroid Testing and Imaging
• Graves’ Disease
• Other Causes of Hyperthyroidism
• Thyroid Ophthalmopathy
• Hypothyroidism
• Subclinical Thyroid Disease
• Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
• Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy and Postpartum
• Thyroid Disease in Children and Adolescents
• Thyroid Nodules and Cancer
• Management of Thyroid Cancer Patients
• Challenging Thyroid Disorders and Current Controversies
• Challenging Cases of Hyperthyroidism
• Treatment of Graves’ Disease
• Iatrogenic Hyperthyroidism.