| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 687 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
Setion I Hypothalamic -- Pituitary Function -- 1. Pituitary development / Jacques Drouin -- 2. Hypothalamic regulation of anterior pituitary function / Anat Ben-Shlomo and Shlomo Melmed -- 3. Adrenocorticotrophin / Carmen L. Soto-Rivera and Joseph A. Majzoub -- 4. Growth hormone / Vivien S. Bonert and Shlomo Melmed -- 5. Prolactin / Nadine Binart -- 6. Thyroid-stimulating hormone / Virginia D. Sarapura and Mary H. Samuel -- 7. Gonadotrophin hormones / Ursula B. Kaiser -- 8. The posterior pituitary / Daniel G. Bichet -- Section II Hypothalamic-Pituitary Disorders -- 9. The hypothalamus / Andrea Giustina, Stefano Frara, Alfio Spina and Pietro Mortini -- 10. Anterior pituitary failure / John D. Carmichael -- 11. Pituitary dysfunction in systemic disorders / Maria Fleseriu -- 12. Drugs and pituitary function / Maria Fleseriu -- 13. The pituitary gland in pregnancy / Andrea Glezer and Marcello D. Bronstein -- 14. Psychiatric disease in hypothalamic-pituitary disorders / Caroline Sievers and Gunter K. Stalla -- Section III Pituitary Tumors -- 15. Acromegaly / Shlomo Melmed -- 16. Prolactinoma / Phillipe Chanson and Dominique Maiter -- 17. Cushing disease / John D.C Newell-Rice -- 18. Thyrotrophin-secreting pituitary tumors / Yona Greenman -- 19. Nonfunctioning and gonadotrophin-secreting adenomas -- 20. Atypical pituitary adenomas / Daniel A. Donoho and Gabriel Zada -- 21. Genetics of pituitary tumor syndromes / Adrian F. Daly and Albert Beckers -- 22. Nonpituitary sellar masses / Luis V. Syro, Fabio Rotondo, Olga Moshkin and Kalman Kovacs -- Section IV Pituitary Procedures -- 23. Pituitary imaging / Marcel Maya and Barry D. Pressman -- 24. Pituitary surgery / Rudolf Fahlbusch and Michael Buchfelder |
| Notes |
Revised edition of: The pituitary / edited by Shlomo Melmed. 3rd ed. 2011 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from electronic title page (ClinicalKey, viewed September 12, 2017) |
| Subject |
Pituitary gland -- Diseases.
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Pituitary gland -- Pathophysiology
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Pituitary gland -- Physiology
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Pituitary Diseases -- physiopathology
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Pituitary Diseases -- diagnosis
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Pituitary Gland -- physiology
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Pituitary Hormones, Anterior -- physiology
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Pituitary Diseases
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Pituitary gland -- Diseases
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Pituitary gland -- Physiology
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Melmed, Shlomo, editor.
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| LC no. |
2016960437 |
| ISBN |
9780128134214 |
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0128134216 |
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