A pocket-size manual providing diagnostic guidelines for the full range of internal medicine diseases and disorders. Each chapter focuses on a specific body system, outlining physical signs and symptoms and identifying diagnostic possibilities. The authors show which laboratory and imaging findings can confirm or refute initial physical diagnoses and the book also includes data on incidences and prevalence of diseases and disorders.
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Höhe: 281 mm
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978-0-7216-3499-9 (9780721634999)
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Principles of diagnostic testing. Part 1 General: fatigue; constipation; diarrhoea; cough; urinary incontinence; hypertension; electrolyte disorders; acid-base disorders. Part 2 Cardiology: chest pain and angina pectoris; edema and congestive heart failure; palpitation and cardiac arrhythmias; myocardial infection; valvular heart disease. Part 3 Pulmonary: dyspnea; hemoptysis; pleural effusion; acute respiratory failure; solitary pulmonary nodule; mediastinal mass; asthma; chronic obstructive; pulmonary embolism; venous thrombosis; adult respiratory distress syndrome; chronic interstitial lung disease; sarcoidosis. Part 4 Renal: hematuria; acute renal failure; chronic renal failure; nephrotic syndrome; glomerulonephritis; nephrolithiasis. Part 5 Gastrointestinal: abdominal pain; gastrointestinal bleeding; upper gastrointestinal disorders; malabsorption; idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease; colonic disorders; pancreatic disease; anaemia; erythrocytosis; hemostatic disorders; lymphadenopathy; leukemia; lymphoma; myeloma. Part 6 Oncology: spinal cord compression; breast nodule and breast cancer; prostate cancer; carcinoma of unknown; primary site. Part 7 Endocrinology: hirsutism; amenorrhea; osteopenia; thyroid diseases; adrenocortical diseases; pheochromocytoma; calcium and magnesium abnormalities; diatetesmellitus; hyperlipidemia. Part 9 Nutrition: nutritional assessment; fever of unknown origin; fever in the immunocompromised patient; otitis, sinusitis and pharyngitis; bronchitis and pneumonia; tuberculosis; endocarditis; skin infections; sexually transmitted diseases; urinary tract infections; infectious diarrhoea; osteomyelitis and septic arthritis; central nervous system infections; AIDS; travel and malaria; lyme disease; infectious mononucleosis. Part 10 Rheumatology: arthralgia and myalgia; polyarthritis; osteoarthritis; gout and pseudogout; spondyloarthropathy; systematic lupus erythematosus; polymyositis; progressive system sclerosis; vasculitis. Part 11 Neurology: coma; syncope; delirium; dementia; headache and facial pain; cerebrovascular diseases; multiple sclerosis; neuropathy and myopathy; alcoholism. Part 12 Hepatology: jaundice; hepatomegaly; viral hepatitis; chronic hepatitis; gallbladder disease. Part 13 Occupational disease: clinical approach to occupational illness.
