FIGURE 67-1. Osteopetrosis. This teenage girl with Albers-Schönberg disease has a “rugger-jersey” spine typical of adult (“benign”) osteopetrosis. The vertebral end plates are markedly thickened. Skeletal scintigraphy reveals fractures and…
FIGURE 42-1. The upper panel of the figure lists the density range that encompasses each lipoprotein class and the major tissue in which the lipoprotein is synthesized. The bottom panel…
FIGURE 1-1. Timeline of selected advances in endocrinology. (ATDs, Antithyroid drugs; CAH, congenital adrenal hyperplasia; DA, dopamine; I-, iodine; OCPs, oral contraceptive pills; Pheo, pheocromocytoma; RAI, radioactive iodine; Rx, treatment;…
FIGURE 71-1. Radiograph demonstrating osteoporosis circumscripta of the skull affecting the frontal and temporal regions. FIGURE 71-2. Radiograph of an osteolytic lesion of Paget’s disease that began in the diaphysis…
FIGURE 31-1. Schematic outline of the development of the mammalian pancreas. 1, Dorsal and ventral buds arise from the duodenal part of the primitive gut endoderm (blackened). 2, The dominant…
FIGURE 137-1. Pathways of testosterone biosynthesis and action. In men, testosterone biosynthesis occurs almost exclusively in mature Leydig cells by the enzymatic sequences illustrated. Cholesterol originates predominantly by de novo…
FIGURE 17-1. The significant increase in reported cases of pituitary thyrotropin (TSH)-producing adenoma in the decade from 1989 to 1999, when ultrasensitive TSH assay and direct methods for free thyroid…
FIGURE 5-1. Schematic of G protein–coupled receptor (GPCR) structures. Top panel represents a subclass I rhodopsin/neurotransmitter GPCR. Middle panel represents a subclass II glucagon–related receptor. Bottom panel represents a subclass…
FIGURE 106-1. CT after contrast media of 8.5 cm in homogeneous ACC of the left adrenal gland (white arrow) and liver metastases (black arrows). (Image provided by W. Kenn, Dept….
FIGURE 154-1. Dysdifferentiation results in aberrant gene expression. The malignant transformation of a progenitor cell results in a clonal population of cells that have undergone atypical differentiation. These cells share…
