Hormonal and functional diagnostics of endocrine diseases
CONTENTS
PREFACE……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7
INTRODUCTORY NOTES………………………………………………………………………….. 9
CHAPTER I. METHODS FOR HORMONAL ANALYSIS…………………………………………………….13
CHAPTER II. HORMONAL DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF
ADENOHYPOPHYSIS………………………………………………………………………………43
CHAPTER III. LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF
THE NEUROPHYPOPHYSIS AND DISORDERS IN THE WATER EXCHANGE…………………….83
CHAPTER IV. LABORATORY APPROACH TO EVALUATION OF THYROID STATUS I
HORMONAL DIAGNOSIS OF THYROID DISEASES…………………101
CHAPTER V. HORMONAL AND FUNCTIONAL DIAGNOSTICS
OF THE DISEASES OF THE ADRENAL CORTEX………………………………..143
CHAPTER VI. ADRENAL MEDULLA: BIOCHEMICAL DIAGNOSIS OF
PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA…………………………………………………………………………219
CHAPTER VII. HORMONAL DIAGNOSIS OF OVARIAN FUNCTION AND
MONOCRYNAL DISORDERS OF THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM……..232
CHAPTER VIII. HORMONAL DIAGNOSIS OF TESTICULAR FUNCTION
AND ANDROGEN STATUS……………………………………………………………………261
CHAPTER IX. LABORATORY DIAGNOSTICS OF DISEASES OF
PARATHYROID GLANDS AND BONE-MINERAL METABOLISM…………293
CHAPTER X. MODERN LABORATORY DIAGNOSTICS
ON DIABETES AND HYPOGLYCEMICAL CONDITIONS……………………328
