Clinical Thyroidology for Patients

Clinical Thyroidology Volume 25 Issue 5 May 2013

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Clinical and professional ethics guidelines for the practice of thyroidology.

Avariety of medical professional societies have developed ethics practice guidelines or position statements regarding specific ethics issues (1–6). The Endocrine Society published its Code of Ethics for practice in 2001 (1); however, none of the practice guidelines are specific to thyroidology. In the field of thyroidology, specific clinical ethics issues arise in different clinical contexts. F...

Thyroid disorders--an update.

Patients with thyroid disease are seen in many diVerent general and specialist clinics because of the many and varied modes of presentation. This review will highlight recent developments in aspects of pathophysiology and clinical management of thyroid disorders but will inevitably not be all inclusive. Recent developments in molecular biology have had important eVects on our understanding of m...

CLINICAL THYROIDOLOGY A publication of the American Thyroid Association THYROID DISEASE Smokers Have High Serum Antithyroid Antibody and Thyrotropin Concentrations Less Often and Low Serum Thyrotropin Concentrations More Often than Nonsmokers

Comparative thyroidology: thyroid gland location and iodothyronine dynamics in M ozambique tilapia