Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Development of Parathyroid Glands and C-Cells
(Hélia Neves and Rita Zilhão, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Histologia e Biologia do Desenvolvimento and Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Parathyroid Glands: Homeostasis, Disease and Indications for Surgical Treatment
(Ioannis A. Christakis, Fausto F. Palazzo, Department of Thyroid and Endocrine Surgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK)
Hyperfunction of Parathyroid Glands
(Franco Lumachi, Pietro Zucchetta, Diego Cecchin, Department of Surgery, Oncology & Gastroenterology (DiSCOG) and Department of Medicine (DiMED), Section of Nuclear Medicine, University of Padua, School of Medicine, Padova, Italy)
Contemporary Surgical Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism
(N. P. Lynch, D. P. O’Leary, M. C. Casey, M. J. Kerin, Department of Surgery, University College Hospital Galway, Galway City, Ireland)
Role of Parathyroid Hormone in Heart Failure
(Tadafumi Sugimoto, Kaoru Dohi, Katsuya Onishi, Masaaki Ito, Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan)
Index