Williams textbook of endocrinology / [edited by] Shlomo Melmed, MBChB, MACP, Professor of Medicine, Senior Vice President and Dean of the Medical Faculty, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, Kenneth S. Polonsky, MD, Richard T. Crane Distinguished Service Professor, Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, P. Reed Larsen, MD, FRCP, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Senior Physician, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Henry M. Kronenberg, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Chief, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principles of endocrinology -- Clinical endocrinology : a personal view -- Principles of hormone action -- Genetics of endocrinology -- Health care reform, population health, and the endocrinologist -- Laboratory techniques for recognition of endocrine disorders -- Neuroendocrinology -- Pituitary physiology and diagnostic evaluation -- Pituitary masses and tumors -- Posterior pituitary -- Thyroid physiology and diagnostic evaluation of patients with thyroid disorders -- Hyperthyroid disorders -- Hypothyroidism and thyroiditis -- Nontoxic diffuse goiter, nodular thyroid disorders, and thyroid malignancies -- The adrenal cortex -- Endocrine hypertension -- Physiology and pathology of the female reproductive axis -- Hormonal contraception -- Testicular disorders -- Sexual dysfunction in men and women -- Endocrine changes in pregnancy -- Endocrinology of fetal development -- Pediatric disorders of sex development -- Normal and aberrant growth in children -- Physiology and disorders of puberty -- Hormones and athletic performance -- Endocrinology and aging -- Hormones and disorders of mineral metabolism -- Osteoporosis and bone biology -- Kidney stones -- Type 2 diabetes mellitus -- Type 1 diabetes mellitus -- Complications of diabetes mellitus -- Hypoglycemia -- Neuroendocrine control of energy stores -- Obesity -- Disorders of lipid metabolism -- Gastrointestinal hormones and gut endocrine tumors -- Multiple endocrine neoplasia -- The immunoendocrinopathy syndromes -- Endocrinology of hiv/aids -- The long-term endocrine sequelae of multimodality cancer therapy -- Neuroendocrine gastrointestinal and lung tumors (carcinoid tumors), the carcinoid syndrome, and related disorders.