Endocrine Neoplasia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sturgeon, Cord. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Cancer Treatment and Research, 153
• Subjects: Medicine.; Endocrinology.; Oncology.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0857-5

Endocrine Neoplasia provides a broad overview of the neoplastic conditions of extracranial endocrine glands not involved in reproduction. Benign and malignant tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid glands, adrenals, and neuroendocrine pancreas are covered. Special emphasis is on the detection, surgical...

Table of Contents:

• Thyroid
• The biology of thyroid oncogenesis
• Evaluation of the thyroid nodule
• Differentiated thyroid cancers of follicular cell origin
• Sporadic medullary thyroid cancer
• Anaplastic thyroid cancer
• Parathyroid
• Primary hyperparathyroidism
• Parathyromatosis and parathyroid cancer
• Adrenal
• Incidentaloma
• Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma
• Functional cortical neoplasms
• Adrenocortical carcinoma
• Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
• Gastrinoma
• Insulinoma
• Rare neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas
• Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia
• The menin gene
• MEN 1. Clinical manifestations and management
• The RET protooncogene
• MEN 2. Clinical manifestations and management.