Thyroid Diseases in Childhood Recent Advances from Basic Science to Clinical Practice /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bona, Gianni (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), De Luca, Filippo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Monzani, Alice (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Endocrinology.; Oncology.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.

This book covers the entire spectrum of thyroid diseases in childhood, focusing on the recent advances that have been achieved, from progress in basic science research through to novel or improved approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Introductory chapters discuss thyroid embryogenesis and the role...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Thyroid embryogenesis
• Thyroid hormones in fetal development
• Etiology of congenital hypothyroidism
• Neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism: what it has taught us about thyroid and brain
• Laboratory aspects in neonatal screening of congenital hypothyroidism
• Epidemiology of congenital hypothyroidism
• Congenital hypothyroidism due to PAX8 mutations
• Transient neonatal hypothyroidism
• Central Hypothyroidism
• Syndromes of resistance to thyroid hormone action
• Management of congenital hypothyroidism
• Neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with congenital hypothyroidism
• Iodine deficiency from pregnancy to childhood
• Thyroid enlargement from newborn to adolescent
• Thyroid nodules and carcinoma
• Autoimmune thyroiditis
• Subclinical hypothyroidism
• Hyperthyroidism
• Generation of functional thyroid from embryonic stem cells.