List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Clinical Approaches: 1. Clinical presentations of endocrine diseases Karen Gomez Hernandez and Shereen Ezzat; 2. Familial endocrine tumor syndromes Charalampos Lyssikatos, Fabio R. Faucz and Constantine A. Stratakis; 3. Immunologic basis of endocrine diseases Shawn Winer, Hubert Tsui, and Daniel Winer; Part II. Investigative Techniques: 4. Biochemical testing Paul M. Yip, Karen Gomez-Hernandez, and Shereen Ezzat; 5. Radiologic imaging Artur Salmaslioglu, Baris Bakir, M. Gulbiz Dagoglu Kartal, Michael Chan, Juan Pablo Cruz, Walter Kucharczyk, Eugene Yu, and Karen Gulenchyn; 6. Cytologic assessment Scott L. Boerner; 7. Intraoperative consultations Ozgur Mete and Sylvia L. Asa; 8. Morphology and immunohistochemistry Robert Osamura; 9. Cytogenetic testing methods Hong Wang and Cuihong Wei; 10. Experimental models of endocrine diseases Toru Tateno and Tae Nakano-Tateno; Part III. Anatomical Endocrine Pathology: 11. The brain as an endocrine organ (including the pineal gland) M. Beatriz S. Lopes, Sugoto Mukherjee, Michael A. Reardon, and Carrie A. Mohila; 12. The pituitary gland Sylvia L. Asa and Ozgur Mete; 13. Thyroid Vania Nosé, Ana Carolina de Jesus, Ozgur Mete, Sylvia L. Asa, Marco Volante, Mauro Papotti and Darcy Kerr; 14. Parathyroid gland Lori A. Erickson; 15. Adrenal cortex Kai Duan, Thomas J. Giordano and Ozgur Mete; 16. Adrenal medulla and extra-adrenal paraganglia Lindsey Oudijk, Ronald R. de Krijger, Karel Pacak, and Arthur S. Tischler; 17. Endocrine lesions of the gastrointestinal tract Stefano Serra; 18. The endocrine pancreas Stefano Serra, Frediano Inzani and Guido Rindi; 19. Liver in endocrine disease Oyedele A. Adeyi and Sandra E. Fischer; 20. Pulmonary, thymic and mediastinal neuroendocrine lesions Mauro Papotti, Sylvie Lantuejoul, Giulio Rossi, and Marco Volante; 21. The kidney in endocrine disease Clariss Cassol and Carmen Avila-Casado; 22. Endocrine aspects of the male genitourinary system Michelle Downes; 23. Endocrine lesions in the mammary gland Tadao Nakazawa and Tetsuo Kondo; 24. The placenta N. J. Sebire and A. R. Bamber; 25. The gynecologic tract – neuroendocrine tumors and ovarian tumors with endocrine association Marjan Rouzbahman and Blaise Clarke; 26. Skin manifestations in endocrine diseases Karen A. Naert, Nadya Al-Faraidy, Ayman Al-Habeeb, Danny Ghazarian, Cuyan Demirkesen and Can Baykal; 27. Cardiovascular system in endocrine disease Pooja Singhal and Jagdish Butany; 28. Soft tissue in endocrine disease Brendan Dickson; 29. Bone in endocrine disease Brendan Dickson, David Goltzman and Richard Kremer; 30. The approach to metastatic endocrine tumors of unknown primary site Sara Hafezi-Bakthiari and Ozgur Mete; Index.