ch. 1. Suggestions for a new classification of thyroid diseases / Fabrizio Monaco -- ch. 2. Diffuse and nodular goiter / Francesco Latrofa and Paolo Vitti -- ch. 3. Acute suppurative, subacute, and Riedel's thyroiditis / Serafino Lio -- ch. 4. Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis / Stefano Mariotti -- ch. 5. Postpartum and silent thyroiditis / Stefano Mariotti -- ch. 6. Single thyroid nodule / Rossella Elisei and Eleonora Molinaro -- ch. 7. Differentiated (papillary and follicular) and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma / Furio Pacini and Maria Grazia Castagna -- ch. 8. Medullary thyroid cancer and multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN2) / Furio Pacini -- ch. 9. Thyroid incidentaloma / Rossella Elisei and Laura Agate -- ch. 10. Adult primary hypothyroidism / Cesidio Giuliani and Fabrizio Monaco -- 11. Congenital neonatal hypothyroidism / Ines Bucci and Cesidio Giuliani -- ch. 12. Central hypothyroidism / Paolo Beck-Peccoz and Luca Persani -- ch. 13. Congenital dyshormonogenetic goiter / Cesidio Giuliani and Ines Bucci -- ch. 14. Syndromes of reduced sensitivity to thyroid hormones / Paolo Beck-Peccoz, Irene Campi, and Luca Persani -- ch. 15. Transient hypothyroidism / Bernadette Biondi -- ch. 16. Subclinical hypothyroidism / Bernadette Biondi -- ch. 17. Hypothyroid coma / Giampaolo Papi and Alfredo Pontecorvi -- ch. 18. Toxic diffuse goiter (Basedow-Graves' disease) / Luca Chiovato, Flavia Magri, and Mario Rotondi -- ch. 19. Toxic multinodular goiter / Giorgio Napolitano and Fabrizio Monaco -- ch. 20. Pretoxic and toxic autonomous nodule / Giorgio Napolitano and Fabrizio Monaco -- ch. 21. Rare forms of thyrotoxicosis / Enrico Macchia. [et al.] -- ch. 22. Transient hyperthyroidism / Bernadette Biondi -- ch. 23. Subclinical hyperthyroidism / Bernadette Biondi -- ch. 24. Thyrotoxic crisis / Giampaolo Papi and Alfredo Pontecorvi -- ch. 25. The thyroidologist in the intensive care unit (ICU) / Antion Bianchi and Alfredo Pontecorvi -- ch. 26. Thyroid orbitopathy / Luigi Bartalena and Maria Laura Tanda -- ch. 27. Thyroid diseases in pregnancy / Francesco Vermiglio, Mariacarla Moleti, and Francesco Trimarchi -- ch. 28. Iodine deficiency in pregnancy / Mariacarla Moleti, Francesco Vermiglio, and Francesco Trimarchi -- ch. 29. Thyroid in the elderly / Stefano Mariotti -- ch. 30. Thyroid and drugs / Salvatore Benvenga, Rosario M. Ruggeri, and Francesco Trimarchi -- ch. 31. Thyroid disruptors / Marco Centanni and Susanna Carlotta Del Duca.