Thyroid Disorders with Cutaneous Manifestations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Anatomy and Embryology of the Thyroid Gland

   • Gabriel Wong, Scott Schaffer

   Pages 1-6

3. Hormones

   • Airani Sathananthan, Kimberly A. Placzkowski, John C. Morris

   Pages 7-12

4. Classification and Epidemiology of Thyroid Disease

   • Ghada Haddad, Steven Kaufman

   Pages 13-22

5. Laboratory Diagnosis of Thyroid Disease

   • Reagan Schiefer, Vahab Fatourechi

   Pages 23-36

6. Thyroglossal Duct Cysts

   • Lisa M. Reid

   Pages 37-41

7. Thyroid Cancer and the Skin

   • Robert A. Somer, Nati Lerman

   Pages 43-53

8. Chromosomes, Genes, and the Thyroid Gland

   • Analisa V. Halpern, Rhonda E. Schnur

   Pages 55-71

9. Cutaneous Manifestations of Hyperthyroidism

   • Clara-Dina Cokonis, Carrie W. Cobb, Warren R. Heymann, Chad M. Hivnor

   Pages 73-87

10. Cutaneous Manifestations of Hypothyroidism

    • Sandra A. Kopp, Pascal G. Ferzli, Chad M. Hivnor, Warren R. Heymann

    Pages 89-102

11. Pretibial Myxedema (Thyroid Dermopathy)

    • Vahab Fatourechi

    Pages 103-119

12. Alopecia and Thyroid Disease

    • Michelle Babb-Tarbox, Wilma F. Bergfeld

    Pages 121-143

13. Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria and Thyroid Disease

    • Jeffrey S Rumbyrt, Alan L Schocket

    Pages 145-156

14. Dermatologic Disorders Associated with Thyroid Disease

    • Joslyn Sciacca Kirby, William D. James

    Pages 157-179

15. Potential Therapeutic Uses of Thyroid Hormone

    • Joshua D. Safer, Michael F. Holick

    Pages 181-186

16. Back Matter

    Pages 187-193

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Jacques Barzun, the noted Columbia University historian of ideas and culture, once described the feeling that some people experience when they come upon a new reference book. He wrote: “Hand over to one of us a new Dictionary, “Companion,” or Guide, and our eyes first light up and then turn dreamy: we have seized the volume and are off, arm in arm with the guide i or companion. …” The book now in your hands made my eyes light up. Thyroid Disorders with Cutaneous Manifestations is that kind of book. Heymann, who has been fascinated by this sometimes controversial subject for decades, has brought not only his own expertise, but that of many experts from the fields of the skin and the thyroid gland. Steven Jay Gould wrote about overlapping and nonoverlapping magisteria—this book demonstrates just how much important overlap there is. But it also covers the basics in such a way that dermatologists can find what they need to know about the thyroid and thyroidologists can find what they need to know about the skin. Thyroid Disorders with Cutaneous Manifestations falls neatly into the tra- tion of medical monographs that become standards. They fulfill the roles of gathering, digesting, and synthesizing current knowledge, and they do so in a way that review articles cannot approach and that the scientific literature is not designed to accomplish.

• Internist
• Urticaria
• cancer
• diagnosis
• epidemiology
• hormone
• management
• thyroid hormone
• metabolic disease

• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, Marlton, USA

  Warren R. Heymann

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