Diseases of the Thyroid

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Molecular Mechanisms of Nuclear Thyroid Hormone Action....Pages 1-15
Nongenomic Actions of Thyroid Hormone....Pages 17-34
Thyroid Testing....Pages 35-48
Update on the Sick Euthyroid Syndrome....Pages 49-68
Neonatal Screening for Thyroid Disease....Pages 69-80
Thyroid Disease in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence....Pages 81-102
Thyroid Disease in Older Persons....Pages 103-124
Autoimmune Thyroid Diseases....Pages 125-154
Problems in the Management of Hypothyroidism....Pages 155-173
Management of the Various Causes of Thyrotoxicosis....Pages 175-198
Resistance to Thyroid Hormone....Pages 199-239
Evaluation and Management of the Euthyroid Nodular and Diffuse Goiter....Pages 241-263
Radiation and Thyroid Cancer....Pages 265-286
Management of Thyroid Cancer....Pages 287-317
Thyroid Dysfunction During Pregnany and After Delivery....Pages 319-329
Environmental Goitrogens....Pages 331-348
Adverse Effects of Iodine Deficiency and its Eradication by Iodine Supplementation....Pages 349-360
Dynamics of Environmental Repletion of Iodine....Pages 361-367
Iodine-Induced Thyroid Disease....Pages 369-383
Back Matter....Pages 385-393