In general, patients with endocrine disorders present to clinicians because they are thought to have either hormone excess or hormone deficiency and each of these states has a variety of underlying causes. The accurate diagnosis of clinical endocrine disease depends upon knowledge of the principles of feedback control described in Chapter 7, on an understanding of basic endocrine biochemistry and on the availability of high quality assay systems provided by chemical pathology laboratories (Fig. 8a).
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