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Endocrine diseases
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Among the hundreds of endocrine diseases (or endocrinological diseases) are:
- Adrenal disorders:
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Addison’s disease
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (adrenogenital syndrome)
- Mineralocorticoid deficiency
- Conn’s syndrome
- Cushing’s syndrome
- Pheochromocytoma
- Adrenocortical carcinoma
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Glucose homeostasis disorders:
- Metabolic bone disease:
- Osteoporosis
- Osteitis deformans (Paget’s disease of bone)
- Rickets and osteomalacia
- Pituitary gland disorders:
- Parathyroid gland disorders:
- Sex hormone disorders:
- Disorders of sex development or intersex disorders
- Hypogonadism
- Gonadotropin deficiency
- Kallmann syndrome
- Klinefelter syndrome
- Ovarian failure
- Testicular failure
- Turner syndrome
- Disorders of Gender
- Disorders of Puberty
- Menstrual function or fertility disorders
- Thyroid disorders:
- Tumours of the endocrine glands not mentioned elsewhere
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia
- MEN type 1
- MEN type 2a
- MEN type 2b
- See also separate organs
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia
- Autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes
- Incidentaloma – an unexpected finding on diagnostic imaging, often of endocrine glands
See also
See also
External links
External links
- Endocrine+system+diseases at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- Template:MedlinePlusOverview
- Overview at Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]