New Aspects in Thyroid Diseases

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- Contents -- IMMUNOLOGY -- Polyendocrine autoimmunity in thyroid disease -- The effect of anti-microsomal antibodies on thyroid peroxidase activity -- Antithyroid antibodies in the synovial fluid in thyroiditis -- Immunological and genetical aspects in T 3- predominant Graves' disease -- Unexpected course in immunological pattern in Graves' Basedov's disease - Marine-Lenhart Syndrome? -- Comparative investigations of sonography and TRAK - follow up of Graves' disease -- Guanyl nucleotide regulatory proteins and GTPase activity in normal and hyperthyroid human thyroid tissue and human polymorphonuclear granulocytes -- PERIPHERAL THYROID HORMONE METABOLISM -- Peripheral thyroid hormone metabolism -- Value of the estimation of peripheral serum T3 and rT3 for prognosis assessment in patients with liver cirrhosis - a prospective study -- Thyroid hormones and TSH in acute myocardial infarction -- Deiodination of thyroxine and reverse triiodothyronine in cells of human adipose tissue -- Comparison of natural killer activity vith thyroid function in Graves' disease -- The influence of the calcium antagonist nitrendipine on thyroid hormone status in the baboon -- Effect of thyroid hormones on lipoprotein (a) level in hypothyroidism -- THYROIDITIS -- Thyrotoxicosis due to thyroiditis -- Thyroiditis - a histopathological reviev -- Clinical and cytological classification of lymphocytic thyroiditis -- The role of ultrasound investigation in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroiditis -- Subacute thyroiditis de Quervain in male subjects -- Thyroid function in postpartum thyroiditis and its follov up -- Riedel's thyroiditis - positive therapeutic response to glucocorticoids -- Management of chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis in children and adolescents -- Thyroiditis and thyroid hyperfunction -- Clinical and laboratory evaluations of patients with different types of thyroiditis -- Hashimoto-thyroiditis vith long-term negative auto-antibody determination: a