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245 00 $aWilliams textbook of endocrinology.
246 1 $aTextbook of endocrinology
250 $a12th ed. /$bShlomo Melmed ... [et al.].
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bElsevier/Saunders,$cc2011.
300 $axiv, 1897 p. :$bill. ;$c29 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"The latest edition of Williams Textbook of Endocrinology edited by Drs. Shlomo Melmed, Kenneth S. Polonsky, P. Reed Larsen, and Henry M. Kronenberg, helps you diagnose and treat your patients effectively with up-to-the minute, practical know-how on all endocrine system disorders. This extensively revised 12th Edition updates you on diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, thyroid disease, testicular disorders, and much more so you can provide your patients with the most successful treatments. Find scientific insight and clinical data interwoven in every chapter, reflecting advances in both areas of this constantly changing discipline, and presented in a truly accessible format, with nearly 2.000 full-color images to help you with every diagnosis. This title has everything you need to manage any and all the clinical endocrinopathies you may encounter"--Publisher description.
505 0 $aHormones and hormone action -- Principles of endocrinology -- Clinical endocrinology -- Genetic control of peptide hormone formation -- Mechanism of action of hormones that act on nuclear receptors -- Mechanism of action of hormones that act at the cell surface -- Laboratory techniques for recognition of endocrine disorders -- Hypothalamus and pituitary -- Neuroendocrinology -- Pituitary physiology and diagnostic evaluation -- Pituitary masses and tumors -- Posterior pituitary -- Thyroid -- Thyroid physiology and diagnostic evaluation of patients with thyroid disorders -- Thyrotoxicosis -- Hypothyroidism and thyroiditis -- Nontoxic diffuse and nodular goiter and thyroid neoplasia -- Adrenal cortex and endocrine hypertension -- The adrenal cortex -- Endocrine hypertension -- Reproduction -- Physiology and pathology of the female reproductive axis -- Hormonal contraception -- Testicular disorders -- Sexual dysfunction in men and women -- Endocrinology and the life span -- Endocrine changes in pregnancy -- Endocrinology of fetal development -- Disorders of sex development -- Normal and aberrant growth -- Puberty -- Hormones and athletic performance -- Endocrinology and aging -- Mineral metabolism -- Hormones and disorders of mineral metabolism -- Metabolic bone disease -- Kidney stones -- Disorders of carbohydrate and metabolism -- Type 2 diabetes mellitus -- Type 1 diabetes mellitus -- Complications of diabetes mellitus -- Hypoglycemia -- Body fat and lipid metabolism -- Neuroendocrine control of energy stores -- Obesity -- Disorders of lipid metabolism -- Endocrinology of HIV/AIDS -- Gastrointestinal hormones and gut endocrine tumors -- Polyendocrine and neoplastic disorders -- Pathogenesis of endocrine tumors -- Multiple endocrine neoplasia -- The immunoendocrinopathy syndromes -- Endocrine management of the cancer survivor -- Neuroendocrine gastrointestinal and lung tumors (carcinoid tumors), carcinoid syndrome, and related disorders.
650 22 $aEndocrine System Diseases.
650 12 $aEndocrine Glands.
650 0 $aEndocrinology.
650 0 $aEndocrine glands$xDiseases.
700 1 $aMelmed, Shlomo.
700 1 $aWilliams, Robert Hardin.
988 $a20110610
906 $0OCLC