Werner & Ingbar's The Thyroid

This clinical reference surveys the thyroid from every angle, covering its anatomy, embryonic development, biochemistry, and physiology, along with the disease processes and treatments that affect it. Its scope runs from how the gland makes and releases its hormones to how thyroid function is measured, including the conditions that follow when it works too hard or too little.

The eleventh edition extends that foundation to newer material: thyroid cytopathology, imaging methods, and targeted drugs for thyroid cancer. It also addresses surgical management of thyroid cancer, thyroid-disrupting substances, synthetic thyroid hormone analogs, the effects of thyroid disease on other organ systems, changes in the aging thyroid, subclinical hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, and thyroid disease during pregnancy.

Contributions come from international specialists, and Dr. Peter Kopp of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine joins as a new editor. The book is written for endocrinologists and thyroid surgeons who need a detailed, current reference, and it is now printed in full color throughout.