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Oxford Textbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes

* Principles of International endocrine practice
* Measurement of circulating hormones
* Standard protocols for endocrine emergencies
* Standard protocols for diabetic emergencies
* Endocrine autoimmunity
* Endocrinology and evolution: the future of
* Population endocrinology
* Prevention in endocrinology (e.g. screening and iodine)
* Inherited susceptibility to endocrine and metabolic
* Molecular biology for the endocrine clinician
* Molecular aspects of hormonal regulation
* Endocrine units
* Diabetes centres (collaboration and improved results)
* Clinical physiology of the endocrine system
* Clinical neuroendocrinology
* Clinical anterior pituitary anatomy physiology
* Genetic and acquired hypopituitarism
* Glucocorticoid/thyroid/sex steroids
* GH deficiency in adults and its treatment
* Molecular pathogenesis of pituitary tumours
* Clinically non-functioning pituitary tumours
* Thyrotrophinomas
* Pituitary incidentalomas
* Pituitary carcinomas
* Pituitary assessment strategy
* Imaging of the pituitary and the hypothalamus
* Histopathology of pituitary tumours
* Transphenoidal surgery and other pituitary surgery
* Pituitary radiotherapy
* Prolactinomas
* Acromegaly and gigantism
* Cushing's disease (including children)
* Hypothalamic syndromes
* Craniopharyngiomas
* Cysts, hamartomas and vascular tumours
* Perisellar tumours
* Inflammatory lesions (sarcoid, histiocystosis etc.)
* Pineal pathophysiology: anatomy and physiology)
* Pineal pathophysiology: melatonin
* Pineal tumours
* Neuroendocrine dysfunction in anxiety/depression etc.
* Endocrinology and alcoholism
* Anorexia, bulimia and the neuroendocrinology of eating disorders
* Pre-menstrual neuroendocrinology
* Neuropsychoendocrinology: stress pains and opioids
* Neuropsychoendorinology: sexual differentiation
* Thyroid
* Biosynthesis, transport, metabolism and actions
* Clinical assessment of the thyroid patient
* Thyroid function tests and effects of drugs
* Non-thyroidal illness
* Thyroid imaging: nuclear medicine techniques
* Nonisotopic techniques for thyroid imaging
* Epidemiology of thyroid disease and swelling
* Genetic factors relating to the thyroid
* Disorders of iodine deficiency
* Disorders of iodine excess
* Radiation induced thyroid disease
* Autoimmune thyroid disease
* Thyroiditis (acute, subacute, chronic, fibrosis)
* Clinical measurement and systemic manifestations
* Management of thyrotoxicosis without hyperthyroidism
* Thyrotoxic storm
* Subclinical hyperthyroidism
* Thyrotoxicosis and periodic paralysis
* Causes and laboratory investigations of thyrotoxicosis
* Radioiodine treatment of thyrotoxicosis
* Surgery for thyrotoxicosis
* Management of Grave's hyperthyroidism
* Grave's ophthalmopathy
* Management of toxic multinodular goitre and
* Clinical assessment and systemic manifestations of
* Causes and laboratory investigations of hypothyroidism
* Treatment of hypothyroidism
* Myxoedema coma
* Subclinical hypothyroidism
* Thyroid disease during pregnancy
* Thyroid disease after pregnancy (postpartum thyroiditis)
* Thyroid disease in new-borns, infants and children
* Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome
* Pathogenesis of non-toxic goitre
* Management of non-toxic goitre
* Management of single thyroid nodule
* Pathogenesis of thyroid cancer
* Pathology of thyroid cancer
* Papillary, follicular and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma
* Medullary thyroid carcinoma
* Parathyroid, calcium and bone metabolism
* Osteoporosis
* Thyroid disease and osteoporosis
* Hypercalcaemic and hypocalcaemic syndromes
* Hypercalcaemia
* Parathyroid diseases (adenoma, hyperplasia etc)
* Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia (FHH)
* Molecular genetics of disorder of calcium homeostasis
* Hypoparathyroid and pseudohypoparathyroid disorders
* Rickets and osteomalacia (inherited and acquired)
* Paget's disease
* Bone dysplasias (including osteogenesis imperfecta)
* The adrenal gland
* Molecular genetics of adrenal tumours
* Addison's syndrome
* CRF, ACTH and glucocorticoid resistance syndromes
* Adrenal imaging
* Adrenal surgery
* Incidentalomas
* Phaeochromocytomas and neuroblastomas
* Primary hyperaldosteronism
* Dexamethasone suppressible hypertension
* Apparent mineralocorticoid excess-11
* Cushing's syndrome (including children)
* The diffuse endocrine system and their hormones
* MEN-1 syndrome
* MEN-2 syndrome
* Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
* McCune Albright syndrome
* Cowden's syndrome
* Neurofibromatosis
* Carney Complex
* Tumour markers
* Insulinomas and hypoglycaemia
* Glucagonoma
* Gastrinoma
* Vipomas
* Somatostatinomas
* Carcinoid syndrome
* Mastocytosis
* Growth and development during childhood
* Childhood endocrinology
* Sexual determination and differentiation
* Common neonatal endocrine disorders: hypoglycaemia
* Common neonatal endocrine disorders: ambiguous...
* Differential diagnosis of short stature/ poor growth
* Genetic defects of GH-IGF-IGFBP axis
* Investigation of the poorly growing child
* Management of short stature
* Growth-promoting agents for non-GH deficient children
* Tall stature
* Precocious/ early puberty (including adrenarche)
* Delayed puberty/ CDGP-hypogonadism
* Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
* Female endocrinology
* Hormonal contraception
* Premenstrual syndrome
* Menopause
* Primary ovarian failure
* Nutrition and reproduction
* Disorders of gonadotrophin secretion
* Hyperprolactinaemic anovulation
* Polycystic ovary syndrome: reproductive aspects
* Polycystic ovary syndrome: metabolic aspects
* Hirsutism
* Infertility
* Conception and implantation
* Maternal foetal-placental unit
* Parturition
* Trophoblastic disease
* Breast development, breast disease, and lactation
* Endocrine disease in pregnancy (including diabetes)
* Hormone-secreting ovarian and adrenal tumours
* Male endocrinology
* Environmental influences on male reproductive health
* Steroid abuse and male reproductive health
* Male mortality and male reproductive health
* The male gamete: spermatogenesis, maturation
* Endocrine and local testicular regulation
* Testicular hormones (testosterone, inhibin, activin)
* Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: clinical appearance
* Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: endocrine evaluation
* Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: semen analysis
* Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: sonography
* Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: cytogenetics
* Diagnosis of testicular dysfunction: testicular biopsy
* Congenital anorchia, acquired anorchia
* Sequelae of extratesticular diseases
* Testicular tumours and male gonadal function
* Infections/ inflammation, obstructions
* Idiopathic infertility
* Disturbed spermatogenesis, spermatogenetic arrest
* Klinefelter syndrome, XX male, XYY male
* Treatment of hypogonadism and infertility
* Assisted reproduction (insemination, IVF, ICSI)
* Cryopreservation of sperm
* Sexuality and erectile dysfunction
* Gynaecomastia
* Transsexulaism
* Male contraception
* Hormone associations of ageing and systemic disease
* Endocrinology of the menopause and hormone
* Androgen misuse and abuse
* Adrenal function and DHEAS
* Ageing and thyroid disease
* Bone disease in the elderly
* The prostate
* Hormones and the kidney
* Hormones and liver disease
* Endocrinology in the critically ill
* Endocrinology of AIDS
* Immunoendocrinopathies
* Metastases in endocrine organs
* Ectopic hormone syndromes
* Endocrine function after chemotherapy
* Endocrine therapy of breast cancer
* Endocrine therapy of prostatic carcinoma
* Neuroendocrine tumours
* Metabolic disorders
* Plasma lipoprotein metabolism
* Familial hypercholesterolemia
* Genetic hypertriglyceridemias
* Familial dysbetalipoproteinemia
* Lipoprotein (a)
* Hypolipoproteinemias
* Other disorders of sterol metabolism
* Clinical approach to the dyslipidemic patient
* Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism
* Disorders of amino acid metabolism
* Hemochromatosis
* The human porphyrias
* Pharmacogenetics
* Obesity as a health problem (including epidemiology)
* Obesity genes (leptin, leptin receptors, lipolysis)
* Pathophysiology and psychosocial aspects of obesity
* Clinical management of obesity
* Diabetes mellitus
* Diabetic nephropathy
* Diabetic neuropathy
* Pregnancy and diabetes
* Macrovascular disease
* The diabetic foot
* The metabolic syndrome
* Organisation of diabetes care
* Future trends in diabetes care: prevention
* Future trends in diabetes care: treatment
* Future trends in diabetes care: transplantation
* Genetic engineering
* Type 1 diabetes: genetics
* Type 1 diabetes: aetiology
* Type 1 diabetes: immunology
* Type 2 diabetes: genetics and epidemiology
* Type 2 diabetes: aetiology
* Treatment of type 1 diabetes
* Treatment of type 2 diabetes
* Hypoglycaemia
* Diabetic ketoacidosis: paediatric, esp. DKA
* Diabetic ketoacidosis: adult, inc. HONK
* Vascular complications: abnormalities
* Vascular complications: molecular basis
* Diabetic retinopathy
* Thyroid imaging: nuclear medicine techniques
* Nonisotopic techniques for thyroid imaging
* Epidemiology of thyroid disease and swelling
* Genetic factors relating to the thyroid
* Disorders of iodine deficiency
* Disorders of iodine excess
* Radiation induced thyroid disease
* Autoimmune thyroid disease
* Thyroiditis (acute, subacute, chronic, fibrosis)
* Clinical measurement and systemic manifestations
* Management of thyrotoxicosis without hyperthyroidism
* Thyrotoxic storm
* Subclinical hyperthyroidism
* Thyrotoxicosis and periodic paralysis
* Causes and laboratory investigations of thyrotoxicosis
* Radioiodine treatment of thyrotoxicosis
* Surgery for thyrotoxicosis
* Management of Grave's hyperthyroidism
* Grave's ophthalmopathy
* Management of toxic multinodular goitre and
* Clinical assessment and systemic manifestations of
* Causes and laboratory investigations of hypothyroidism
* Treatment of hypothyroidism
* Myxoedema coma
* Subclinical hypothyroidism
* Thyroid disease during pregnancy
* Thyroid disease after pregnancy (postpartum thyroiditis)
* Thyroid disease in new-borns, infants and children
* Thyroid disease in new-borns, infants and children
* Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome
* Pathogenesis of non-toxic goitre
* Management of non-toxic goitre
* Management of single thyroid nodule
* Pathogenesis of thyroid cancer
* Pathology of thyroid cancer
* Papillary, follicular and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma
* Medullary thyroid carcinoma
* Parathyroid, calcium and bone metabolism
* Osteoporosis
* Thyroid disease and osteoporosis
* Hypercalcaemic and hypocalcaemic syndromes
* Hypercalcaemia
* Parathyroid diseases (adenoma, hyperplasia etc)
* Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia (FHH)
* Molecular genetics of disorder of calcium homeostasis
* Hypoparathyroid and pseudohypoparathyroid disorders
* Rickets and osteomalacia (inherited and acquired)
* Paget's disease
* Bone dysplasias (including osteogenesis imperfecta)
* The adrenal gland
* Molecular genetics of adrenal tumours
* Addison's syndrome
* CRF, ACTH and glucocorticoid resistance syndromes
* Adrenal imaging