Thyroid and Its Diseases

PART I INTRODUCTION: Anatomy and Physiology of the Thyroid Gland.- The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis: Physiological Regulation and Clinical Implications.- Thyroglobulin storage and degradation for thyroid hormone liberation.- Disorders of thyroid hormone transporters and receptors.- Deiodination and peripheral metabolism of thyroid hormone.- PART II BASIS OF THYROID DISEASE: Epidemiology of thyroid diseases.- Classification of thyroid diseases.- Iodine Deficiency.- Selenium Deficiency and Thyroid Disease.- PART III DIAGNOSTIC & THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES: Laboratory testing in thyroid disorders.- Ultrasonography of the Thyroid and Cervical Lymph nodes.- The role of elastography in the management of thyroid nodules.- DTC imaging with Iodine-124 and F-18-FDG.- Surgery for benign goiter.- PART IV HYPOTHYROIDISM: The thyroid and its regulation by the TSHR: Evolution, development and congenital defects.- Hypothyroidism.- Central hypothyroidism.- Subclinical hypothyroidism.- Treatment of hypothyroidism.- Myxedema coma.- Heart in Hypothyroidism.- PART V HYPERTHYROIDISM: Graves' disease.- Graves' Ophthalmopathy.- Subclinical hyperthyroidism.- Thyroid storm.- Heart in Hyperthyroidism.- PART VI THYROIDITIS: Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis.- Acute infectious thyroiditis (Acute suppurative thyroiditis).- Postpartum thyroiditis.- Amiodarone-induced thyroid dysfunction.- Iodine-induced thyroid dysfunction.- PART VII THYROID NEOPLASIA: Pathology of the thyroid: A review.- Thyroid nodules: Current Evaluation & Management.- Non-toxic Multinodular goiter.- PART VIII THYROID CANCER: Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer.- Molecular Genetics and Diagnostics of Thyroid Cancer.- Thyroid Cancer in Children and Adolescents.- Thyroid Cancer Surgery.- Staging and Prognosis of Thyroid Cancer.- Radioiodine Therapy in Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma.- Dosimetry for 131I Therapy for Metastatic Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Thyroid Cancer: Targeted Molecular Therapy.- Thyroid Cancer: Thyroglobulin & TgABs.- Medullary thyroid cancer.- Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma.- Primary Thyroid Lymphoma.- The Role of TSH Suppression in the Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- PART IX MISCELANEOUS TOPICS: Hyperthyroidism and Pregnancy.- Thyroid hormone resistance syndromes.

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• Medicina nuclear
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Autoimmune Thyroid Disease;Euthyroid Sick Syndrome;Hyperthyroidism;Hypothyroidism;Thyroid;Thyroid Cancer;Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy;Thyroid Function Tests;Thyroiditis;Thyrois Neoplasia;head and neck surgery;surgical oncology