Overview

In the past decade, there has been increasing recognition of thyroid diseases as a common health problem. While there have been few major new advances in treatment, there is much greater understanding of why thyroid disorders occur and the long-term health effects of thyroid disease. As people with thyroid disease begin to know more about their disorder, they are able to co-operate better with treatment and their anxieties about the problem can be significantly reduced.This fourth edition of Thyroid Disease: The Facts provides a reader-friendly source of information and reassurance for those people with thyroid disorders and their families. The book covers the wide range of conditions associated with thyroid dysfunction, from simple goitre to more complex disorders such as Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. This edition also includes several completely new chapters, including one specifically devoted to thyroid disorders in infants, children and adolescents. Each chapter concludes with a useful Question and Answer section.

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Author:   Mark P.J Vanderpump (Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer in Diabetes and Endocrinology, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London, UK) ,  W. Michael G. Tunbridge (Emeritus Physician, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford, and Honorary Consulting Physician, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   4th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.248kg
ISBN:  

9780199205714

ISBN 10:   019920571
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   10 January 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

1: The thyroid gland 2: Things that go wrong with the thyroid gland 3: How the doctor finds out what is wrong 4: Thyroid overactivity caused by Graves' disease 5: The eye changes associated with Graves' disease 6: Other causes of thyroid overactivity 7: Underactivity of the thyroid and its causes in adults 8: Hashimoto's thyroiditis 9: Subacute viral thyroiditis 10: Simple non-toxic goitre 11: Multinodular goitre and the solitary nodule 12: Cancer of the thyroid gland 13: Thyroid problems during and after pregnancy 14: Thyroid problems in infants, children and adolescents 15: Miscellaneous disorders of the thyroid gland 16: Other diseases associated with thyroid disorders 17: Who should be tested for thyroid problems? 18: Who should be referred to a specialist?

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No major areas are ignored, and patients who want more information on these subjects will have a good background after reading this book...I will be suggesting it to my own patients. * Doody's Notes *

No major areas are ignored, and patients who want more information on these subjects will have a good background after reading this book...I will be suggesting it to my own patients. Doody's Notes

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