This book is a comprehensive guide to the assessment and management of adults with thyroid disorders in daily clinical practice. All important aspects and disorders are considered. Relevant information on basic anatomy, embryology, immunology, and physiology is included to provide a better basis for understanding the development of disease and its diagnosis and treatment. Currently available biochemical tests and other specific diagnostic tools are also considered in detail. The various common thyroid disorders are then discussed in a series of individual chapters that focus on etiology, pathophysiology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. Numerous high-quality illustrations and concise fact boxes are included. The authors are all experts with wide experience in three disciplines and a long-standing interest in thyroid disease.

Anatomy and physiology

Biochemical investigations
Other investigations
Clinical investigation of the thyroid
Iodine and the thyroid gland in health and sickness
Autoimmunity and the thyroid gland
Growth regulation of the thyroid gland
Thyroiditis, pathogenesis
Causes of hypothyroidism
Symptoms of hypothyroidism
Threatment of hypothyroidism
Subclinical hypothyroidism
Myxoedema coma
Causes of thyrotoxicosis
Symptoms of thyrotoxicosis
Treatment options in hyperthyroidism
Graves' disease
Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy
Autonomous adenoma
Toxic multinodular goitre
Subclinical thyrotoxicosis
Thyrotoxicosis in the elderly
Thyrotoxic crisis/thyroid storm
Thyroiditis - clinical aspects
Subacute thyroiditis
Other causes of thyrotoxicosis
Non-toxic goiter
Thyroid lumps
Thyroid cancer
The thyroid and pregnancy. Thyroid disease in adolescents
Medicines and other medical preparations and the thyroid
Thyroid hormone resistance.