Oxford Desk Reference: Endocrinology

• 1 Principles of Endocrinology


• 1.1: Hormones, Receptors and signalling


• 1.2: Hormone measurements: Assays


• 1.3: Hormone measurements: Hormone Binding Proteins


• 1.4: Hormone measurements: Biological Matrices for Hormone Measurement


• 1.5: Autoimmunity and the Endocrine System


• 1.6: Genetic Endocrine Disorders


• 1.7: Geographic and Ethnic Variation in Endocrine Disorders


• 2 Thyroid Hormone Metabolism


• 2.1: Anatomy and physiology


• 2.2: Thyroid Investigations


• 2.3: Imaging and Localisation of the Thyroid


• 2.4: Approach to the assessment of disorders of thyroid hormone homeostasis


• 2.5: Hyperthyroidism


• 2.6: Thyroiditis


• 2.7: Hypothyroidism


• 2.8: Thyroid Nodules and Cancer


• 3 Pituitary Gland


• 3.1: Anatomy and Physiology


• 3.2: Genetic testing for pituitary adenomas


• 3.3: Pituitary Imaging and Localisation


• 3.4: Approach to the assessment of disorders of pituitary hormone homeostasis


• 3.5: Prolactinomas


• 3.6: Acromegaly


• 3.7: Cushing s disease


• 3.8: Non-Functioning Pituitary Tumours


• 3.9: Gonadotroph adenomas


• 3.10: Thyrotrophinomas


• 3.11: Pituitary Incidentalomas


• 3.12: Pituitary Carcinoma


• 3.13: Craniopharyngioma and Perisellar Cysts


• 3.14: Pituitary Apoplexy


• 3.15: Surgical Treatment


• 3.16: Pituitary Radiotherapy


• 3.17: Parasellar Pituitary Conditions


• 4 Posterior Pituitary Gland


• 4.1: Diabetes Insipidus


• 4.2: Hyponatraemia


• 4.3: Syndrome of inappropriate ADH (SIADH)


• 4.4: Disorders of Hypothalamic Function


• 5 Pineal Gland

Dr Helen Turner (MA (Cantab.) MD FRCP LLB Hons) trained at Cambridge University followed by St Bartholomews Hospital, and has been a Consultant Endocrinologist in Oxford since 2000. Her MD research was angiogenesis in endocrine tumours. She has written many research papers and her main clinical and research interests are Turner Syndrome and the Management of Thyroid eye disease. She initiated and edits the successful Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology which is now in its third edition.

Richard Eastell qualified in medicine from Edinburgh in 1977. He trained in endocrinology in Edinburgh, Northwick Park and at the Mayo Clinic (Dr B L Riggs). He leads a research group on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis; of particular note is his contribution to the use of bone turnover markers and the development of treatments for osteoporosis. He was the first European elected to the Council of ASBMR and was its 2013 meeting clinical co-chair. His work has recently been recognised by the Ian MacIntyre Medal (2011), Philippe Bordier Award (2012) (European Calcified Tissue Society), Frederic C Bartter Award 2014 (American Society for Bone and Mineral Research) and IBIS Team Member awarded 2014 Translational Cancer Research Prize, Cancer Research UK, 2014.

Ashley Grossman graduated in Psychology and Social Anthropology from the University of London, and then in Neurosciences and eventually Medicine from University College London: he is Professor of Endocrinology and Fellow of Green-Templeton College at the University of Oxford, Professor of Neuroendocrinology at Barts and the London School of Medicine, and Consultant NET Endocrinologist at the Royal Free Hospital, London. His current interests revolve around the pathogenesis of endocrine tumours including adrenal, pituitary and neuroendocrine tumours. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and author or co-author of some 850 original articles and reviews.

This is an excellent book for its selected audience ... I will certainly recommend this to my colleagues and trainees. BMA reviewing panel, BMA Medical Book Awards 2019