COVER -- COPYRIGHT -- AUTHORS -- PREFACE -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- CONTENTS -- PART I - GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ENDOCRINOLOGY -- CHAPTER 1 - ENDOCRINOLOGY AND THE ENDOCRINE PATIENT -- CHAPTER 2 - MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: PRESENT AND FUTURE -- CHAPTER 3 - BIOSYNTHESIS AND SECRETION OF PEPTIDE HORMONES -- CHAPTER 4 - HORMONAL ACTION -- CHAPTER 5 - FEEDBACK CONTROL IN ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS -- CHAPTER 6 - ENDOCRINE RHYTHMS -- CHAPTER 7 - GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORMAL INFANT AND CHILD -- PART II - THE ENDOCRINE BRAIN AND PITUITARY GLAND -- CHAPTER 8 - MORPHOLOGY OF THE ENDOCRINE BRAIN, HYPOTHALAMUS, AND NEUROHYPOPHYSIS -- CHAPTER 9 - PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF THE ENDOCRINE BRAIN AND HYPOTHALAMUS -- CHAPTER 10 - PINEAL GLAND -- CHAPTER 11 - MORPHOLOGY OF THE PITUITARY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE -- SECTION A - ADENOHYPOPHYSIS -- CHAPTER 12 - GROWTH HORMONE AND ITS DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 13 - PROLACTIN AND ITS DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 14 - ADRENOCORTICOTROPIN: PHYSIOLOGY AND CLINICAL ASPECTS -- CHAPTER 15 - THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE AND ITS DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 16 - PITUITARY GONADOTROPINS AND THEIR DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 17 - HYPOPITUITARISM -- CHAPTER 18 - HYPOTHALAMIC AND PITUITARY DISORDERS IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD -- CHAPTER 19 - THE OPTIC CHIASM IN ENDOCRINOLOGIC DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 20 - DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING OF THE SELLAR REGION -- CHAPTER 21 - MEDICAL TREATMENT OF PITUITARY TUMORS AND HYPERSECRETORY STATES -- CHAPTER 22 - RADIOTHERAPY OF PITUITARYHYPOTHALAMIC TUMORS -- CHAPTER 23 - NEUROSURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF PITUITARY-HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS -- CHAPTER 24 - PITUITARY TUMORS: OVERVIEW OF THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS -- SECTION B - NEUROHYPOPHYSIAL SYSTEM -- CHAPTER 25 - PHYSIOLOGY OF VASOPRESSIN, OXYTOCIN, AND THIRST -- CHAPTER 26 - DIABETES INSIPIDUS AND HYPEROSMOLAR SYNDROMES -- CHAPTER 27 - INAPPROPRIATE ANTIDIURESIS AND OTHER HYPOOSMOLAR STATES.

PART III - THE THYROID GLAND -- CHAPTER 28 - APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH THYROID DISEASE -- CHAPTER 29 - MORPHOLOGY OF THE THYROID GLAND -- CHAPTER 30 - THYROID PHYSIOLOGY: SYNTHESIS AND RELEASE, IODINE METABOLISM, BINDING AND TRANSPORT -- CHAPTER 31 - THYROID PHYSIOLOGY: HORMONE ACTION, RECEPTORS, AND POSTRECEPTOR EVENTS -- CHAPTER 32 - THYROID HORMONE RESISTANCE SYNDROMES -- CHAPTER 33 - THYROID FUNCTION TESTS -- CHAPTER 34 - THYROID UPTAKE AND IMAGING -- CHAPTER 35 - THYROID SONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING -- CHAPTER 36 - ABNORMAL THYROID FUNCTION TEST RESULTS IN EUTHYROID PERSONS -- CHAPTER 37 - ADVERSE EFFECTS OF IODIDE -- CHAPTER 38 - NONTOXIC GOITER -- CHAPTER 39 - THE THYROID NODULE -- CHAPTER 40 - THYROID CANCER -- CHAPTER 41 - UNUSUAL THYROID CANCERS -- CHAPTER 42 - HYPERTHYROIDISM -- CHAPTER 43 - ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY -- CHAPTER 44 - SURGERY OF THE THYROID GLAND -- CHAPTER 45 - HYPOTHYROIDISM -- CHAPTER 46 - THYROIDITIS -- CHAPTER 47 - THYROID DISORDERS OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD -- PART IV - CALCIUM AND BONE METABOLISM -- CHAPTER 48 - MORPHOLOGY OF THE PARATHYROID GLANDS -- CHAPTER 49 - PHYSIOLOGY OF CALCIUM METABOLISM -- CHAPTER 50 - PHYSIOLOGY OF BONE -- CHAPTER 51 - PARATHYROID HORMONE -- CHAPTER 52 - PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN -- CHAPTER 53 - CALCITONIN GENE FAMILY OF PEPTIDES -- CHAPTER 54 - VITAMIN D -- CHAPTER 55 - BONE QUANTIFICATION AND DYNAMICS OF TURNOVER -- CHAPTER 56 - MARKERS OF BONE METABOLISM -- CHAPTER 57 - CLINICAL APPLICATION OF BONE MINERAL DENSITY MEASUREMENTS -- CHAPTER 58 - PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM -- CHAPTER 59 - NONPARATHYROID HYPERCALCEMIA -- CHAPTER 60 - HYPOPARATHYROIDISM AND OTHER CAUSES OF HYPOCALCEMIA -- CHAPTER 61 - RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY -- CHAPTER 62 - SURGERY OF THE PARATHYROID GLANDS -- CHAPTER 63 - OSTEOMALACIA AND RICKETS -- CHAPTER 64 - OSTEOPOROSIS.

CHAPTER 65 - PAGET DISEASE OF BONE -- CHAPTER 66 - RARE DISORDERS OF SKELETAL FORMATION AND HOMEOSTASIS -- CHAPTER 67 - DISEASES OF ABNORMAL PHOSPHATE METABOLISM -- CHAPTER 68 - MAGNESIUM METABOLISM -- CHAPTER 69 - NEPHROLITHIASIS -- CHAPTER 70 - DISORDERS OF CALCIUM AND BONE METABOLISM IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD -- PART V - THE ADRENAL GLANDS -- CHAPTER 71 - MORPHOLOGY OF THE ADRENAL CORTEX AND MEDULLA -- CHAPTER 72 - SYNTHESIS AND METABOLISM OF CORTICOSTEROIDS -- CHAPTER 73 - CORTICOSTEROID ACTION -- CHAPTER 74 - TESTS OF ADRENOCORTICAL FUNCTION -- CHAPTER 75 - CUSHING SYNDROME -- CHAPTER 76 - ADRENOCORTICAL INSUFFICIENCY -- CHAPTER 77 - CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA -- CHAPTER 78 - CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY -- CHAPTER 79 - RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM AND ALDOSTERONE -- CHAPTER 80 - HYPERALDOSTERONISM -- CHAPTER 81 - HYPOALDOSTERONISM -- CHAPTER 82 - ENDOCRINE ASPECTS OF HYPERTENSION -- CHAPTER 83 - ADRENOCORTICAL DISORDERS IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD -- CHAPTER 84 - THE INCIDENTAL ADRENAL MASS -- CHAPTER 85 - PHYSIOLOGY OF THE ADRENAL MEDULLA AND THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM -- CHAPTER 86 - PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA AND OTHER DISEASES OF THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM -- CHAPTER 87 - ADRENOMEDULLARY DISORDERS OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD -- CHAPTER 88 - DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING OF THE ADRENAL GLANDS -- CHAPTER 89 - SURGERY OF THE ADRENAL GLANDS -- PART VI - SEX DETERMINATION AND DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER 90 - NORMAL AND ABNORMAL SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION AND DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER 91 - PHYSIOLOGY OF PUBERTY -- CHAPTER 92 - PRECOCIOUS AND DELAYED PUBERTY -- CHAPTER 93 - MICROPENIS, HYPOSPADIAS, AND CRYPTORCHIDISM IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD -- PART VII - ENDOCRINOLOGY OF THE FEMALE -- CHAPTER 94 - MORPHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OVARY -- CHAPTER 95 - THE NORMAL MENSTRUAL CYCLE AND THE CONTROL OF OVULATION -- CHAPTER 96 - DISORDERS OF MENSTRUATION, OVULATION, AND SEXUAL RESPONSE.

CHAPTER 97 - OVULATION INDUCTION -- CHAPTER 98 - ENDOMETRIOSIS -- CHAPTER 99 - PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME -- CHAPTER 100 - MENOPAUSE -- CHAPTER 101 - HIRSUTISM, ALOPECIA, AND ACNE -- CHAPTER 102 - FUNCTIONING TUMORS AND TUMOR-LIKE CONDITIONS OF THE OVARY -- CHAPTER 103 - THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF FEMALE INFERTILITY -- CHAPTER 104 - FEMALE CONTRACEPTION -- CHAPTER 105 - COMPLICATIONS AND SIDE EFFECTS OF STEROIDAL CONTRACEPTION -- CHAPTER 106 - MORPHOLOGY OF THE NORMAL BREAST, ITS HORMONAL CONTROL, AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY -- CHAPTER 107 - CONCEPTION, IMPLANTATION, AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER 108 - THE MATERNAL-FETAL-PLACENTAL UNIT -- CHAPTER 109 - ENDOCRINOLOGY OF PARTURITION -- CHAPTER 110 - ENDOCRINE DISEASE IN PREGNANCY -- CHAPTER 111 - TROPHOBLASTIC TISSUE AND ITS ABNORMALITIES -- CHAPTER 112 - ENDOCRINOLOGY OF TROPHOBLASTIC TISSUE -- PART VIII - ENDOCRINOLOGY OF THE MALE -- CHAPTER 113 - MORPHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE TESTIS -- CHAPTER 114 - EVALUATION OF TESTICULAR FUNCTION -- CHAPTER 115 - MALE HYPOGONADISM -- CHAPTER 116 - TESTICULAR DYSFUNCTION IN SYSTEMIC DISEASE -- CHAPTER 117 - ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION -- CHAPTER 118 - MALE INFERTILITY -- CHAPTER 119 - CLINICAL USE AND ABUSE OF ANDROGENS AND ANTIANDROGENS -- CHAPTER 120 - GYNECOMASTIA -- CHAPTER 121 - ENDOCRINE ASPECTS OF BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA -- CHAPTER 122 - TESTICULAR TUMORS -- CHAPTER 123 - MALE CONTRACEPTION -- PART IX - DISORDERS OF FUEL METABOLISM -- SECTION A - FOOD AND ENERGY -- CHAPTER 124 - PRINCIPLES OF NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT -- CHAPTER 125 - APPETITE -- CHAPTER 126 - OBESITY -- CHAPTER 127 - STARVATION -- CHAPTER 128 - ANOREXIA NERVOSA AND OTHER EATING DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 129 - FUEL HOMEOSTASIS AND INTERMEDIARY METABOLISM OF CARBOHYDRATE, FAT, AND PROTEIN -- CHAPTER 130 - VITAMINS: HORMONAL AND METABOLIC INTERRELATIONSHIPS.

CHAPTER 131 - TRACE MINERALS: HORMONAL AND METABOLIC INTERRELATIONSHIPS -- CHAPTER 132 - EXERCISE: ENDOCRINE AND METABOLIC EFFECTS -- SECTION B - DIABETES MELLITUS -- CHAPTER 133 - MORPHOLOGY OF THE ENDOCRINE PANCREAS -- CHAPTER 134 - ISLET CELL HORMONES: PRODUCTION AND DEGRADATION -- CHAPTER 135 - GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS AND INSULIN ACTION -- CHAPTER 136 - CLASSIFICATION, DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, AND PATHOGENESIS OF TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS -- CHAPTER 137 - ETIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS AND RELATED DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 138 - NATURAL HISTORY OF DIABETES MELLITUS -- CHAPTER 139 - SECONDARY FORMS OF DIABETES MELLITUS -- CHAPTER 140 - EVALUATION OF METABOLIC CONTROL IN DIABETES -- CHAPTER 141 - DIET AND EXERCISE IN DIABETES -- CHAPTER 142 - ORAL AGENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS -- CHAPTER 143 - INSULIN THERAPY AND ITS COMPLICATIONS -- CHAPTER 144 - PANCREAS AND ISLET TRANSPLANTATION -- CHAPTER 145 - SYNDROME X -- CHAPTER 146 - SYNDROMES OF EXTREME INSULIN RESISTANCE -- CHAPTER 147 - CARDIOVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETES MELLITUS -- CHAPTER 148 - DIABETIC NEUROPATHY -- CHAPTER 149 - GASTROINTESTINAL COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETES -- CHAPTER 150 - DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY -- CHAPTER 151 - DIABETES AND THE EYE -- CHAPTER 152 - DIABETES AND INFECTION -- CHAPTER 153 - DIABETES AND THE SKIN -- CHAPTER 154 - THE DIABETIC FOOT -- CHAPTER 155 - DIABETIC ACIDOSIS, HYPEROSMOLAR COMA, AND LACTIC ACIDOSIS -- CHAPTER 156 - DIABETES MELLITUS AND PREGNANCY -- CHAPTER 157 - DIABETES MELLITUS IN THE INFANT AND CHILD -- SECTION C - HYPOGLYCEMIA -- CHAPTER 158 - HYPOGLYCEMIC DISORDERS IN THE ADULT -- CHAPTER 159 - LOCALIZATION OF ISLET CELL TUMORS -- CHAPTER 160 - SURGERY OF THE ENDOCRINE PANCREAS -- CHAPTER 161 - HYPOGLYCEMIA OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD -- SECTION D - LIPID METABOLISM.

CHAPTER 162 - BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF LIPID AND LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM.