Main description:

Endocrine Pathology integrates classical diagnostic anatomic pathology with recent developments in immunochemistry and molecular biology in its approach to endocrine disorders. The book discusses not only a wide range of diseases commonly encountered in everyday clinical practice but also those uncommon conditions elucidated by such innovative techniques as ultrastructural immunochemistry and in situ hybridization.

Contents:

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- 1 The Endocrine System.- 2 Pituitary Gland and Hypothalamus.- 3 Thyroid.- 4 Parathyroid Glands.- 5 Endocrine Pancreas.- 6 Neuroendocrine Cells and Neoplasms of the Gastrointestinal Tract.- 7 Neuroendocrine Cells and Neoplasms of the Lung.- 8 Adrenal Gland.- 9 Extra-Adrenal Paraganglion System.- 10 Miscellaneous Neoplasms with Endocrine Differentiation.- 11 Ectopic Hormone Syndromes.- 12 Polyendocrine Disorders.- Appendices.- I Immunochemistry.- Color Plates 1 and 2.- II In Situ Hybridization.- III Weights of Some Endocrine Organs.