Full Description
The Pituitary, Fourth Edition, continues the tradition of a cogent blend of basic science and clinical medicine which has been the successful hallmark of prior editions. This comprehensive text is devoted to the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of pituitary disorders. The new edition has been extensively revised to reflect new knowledge derived from advances in molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, diagnostics, and therapeutics as they apply to the pituitary gland.
The wide spectrum of clinical disorders emanating from dysfunction of the master gland is described in detail by experts in the field. Fundamental mechanisms underlying disease pathogenesis are presented to provide the reader with an in-depth understanding of mechanisms subserving both normal and disordered pituitary hormone secretion and action.
This extensive body of knowledge is useful for students, trainees, physicians, and scientists who need to understand critical pituitary functions and how to care for patients with pituitary disorders. Chapters provide medical students, clinical and basic endocrinology trainees, endocrinologists, internists, pediatricians, gynecologists, and neurosurgeons with a comprehensive, yet integrated, text devoted to the science and art of pituitary medicine.
Contents
Section I: Hypothalamic-Pituitary Function
1. Pituitary Development
2. Hypothalamic Regulation of Anterior Pituitary Function
3. Adrenocorticotrophin
4. Growth Hormone
5. Prolactin
6. Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone
7. Gonadotrophin Hormones
8. The Posterior Pituitary
Section II: Hypothalamic-Pituitary Disorders
9. The Hypothalamus
10. Anterior Pituitary Failure
11. Pituitary Dysfunction in Systemic Disorders
12. Drugs and Pituitary Function
13. The Pituitary Gland in Pregnancy
14. Psychiatric Disease in Hypothalamic-Pituitary Disorders
Section III: Pituitary Tumors
15. Acromegaly
16. Prolactinoma
17. Cushing Disease
18. Thyrotrophin-Secreting Pituitary Tumors
19. Nonfunctioning and Gonadotrophin-Secreting Adenomas
20. Atypical Pituitary Adenomas
21. Genetics of Pituitary Tumor Syndromes
22. Nonpituitary Sellar Masses
Section IV: Pituitary Procedures
23. Pituitary Imaging
24. Pituitary Surgery
