The Adrenal Gland

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Glucocorticoid Hormones

   • C. R. Kannan

   Pages 1-29

3. Addison’s Disease

   • C. R. Kannan

   Pages 31-96

4. Cushing’s Syndrome

   • C. R. Kannan

   Pages 97-175

5. Glucocorticoid Therapy

   • C. R. Kannan

   Pages 177-218

6. The Mineralocorticoid Hormones

   • C. R. Kannan

   Pages 219-236

7. Primary Hyperaldosteronism

   • C. R. Kannan

   Pages 237-312

8. Bartter’s Syndrome

   • C. R. Kannan

   Pages 313-339

9. Selective Hypoaldosteronism

   • C. R. Kannan

   Pages 341-370

10. Hirsutism

    • C. R. Kannan

    Pages 371-391

11. Adrenocortical Carcinoma

    • C. R. Kannan

    Pages 393-422

12. The Adrenogenital Syndromes

    • C. R. Kannan

    Pages 423-463

13. Pheochromocytoma

    • C. R. Kannan

    Pages 465-495

14. Back Matter

    Pages 497-504

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This volume, The Adrenal Gland, is the second in the Clinical Surveys in Endo­ crinology series. Like its predecessor on the pituitary gland, this work is written with one purpose in mind-to view the vast, relevant adrenal literature through a clinician's eyes. The intricate, and often complex, interrelationship between the clinical and research perspectives of "adrenology" poses a challenge. This is, in part, due to the commonly held belief that the milieux of steroid hormone research and clinical medicine are parallel phenomena, not destined to meet. But the twain do meet, and often with relative ease, when viewed as twin facets of the same gem. The view presented in this work is from the vantage point of the clinical endocrinologist who applies the research literature to understand adre­ nal diseases more clearly. Adrenal pathology is arguably the most fascinating of all endocrinopathies. The images of patients suffering from adrenal diseases are of kaleidoscopic quality: the newborn child with ambiguous genitalia, in whom the very first ritual of assigning sex becomes shrouded with uncertainty; the revitalized pa­ tient with hitherto undiagnosed Addison's disease, who but for the cognitive powers of the endocrinologist would have ultimately succumbed, undiagnosed; the virilized female with adrenal tumor and its attendant onslaught on the body and mind; the febrile patient with pheochromocytoma masquerading as fever of undetermined origin for months.

• hormone
• steroid
• tumor
• diabetes

• Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, USA

  C. R. Kannan

• Rush-Presbyterian - St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, USA

  C. R. Kannan

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