Medical Management of Thyroid Disease (2nd Ed).pdf

Second Medical Management
Endocrinology
Edition
about the book…
For general practitioners and endocrinologists, the new Second Edition of this
bestselling book offers the most up-to-date and practical guidance to diagnose Medical
and mon and mon thyroid diseases.
New to the Second Edition:
• information on thyroid neoplasia, leading to new effective treatments of
advanced thyroid cancer Management
• important new research on subclinical thyroid disease in the elderly and
thyroid disorders in pregnancy
• new research on thyroid physiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutics
The new edition is fully evidence-based and updated to include the most current of Thyroid
treatment and latest findings:
• the screening and case finding for thyroid disease
• the use of calcitonin in the diagnosis of medullary thyroid cancer of Thyroid Disease Disease
• the diagnosis and management of subclinical hyperthyroidism
(mild hyperthyroidism)
• thyroid disease related to interferon therapy and amiodarone therapy
about the editor... Second Edition
DAVID S. COOPER is Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine; Professor of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health; and Physician and Director, the Thyroid Clinic, Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Dr. Cooper received his . from Tufts
University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is a member of the Endocrine Society
and is a past president of the American Thyroid Association. Dr. Cooper is currently
Deputy Editor of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Editor–in-
Chief of Endocrinology, Up-to-Date, and Contributing Editor of the Journal of the
American Medical Association (JAMA). Dr. Cooper was also the editor of the first
edition of Informa Healthcare’s Medical Management of Thyroid Disease.
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