DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF COMMON COMPLAINS

This widely respected reference looks at illness the way it's really faced in practice-by symptom, rather than by disease. Thus it provides extremely direct access to today's best diagnostic assistance. Each chapter first presents the probable causes for a given set of symptoms. Then it discusses the historical findings, physical findings, and diagnostic studies that will lead to a firm diagnosis-with a focus on the most efficient and economical imaging modalities and tests. Tables offer easy access to the differential diagnostic features of the clinical entities that cause a particular complaint. All complaints, symptoms, and diagnoses are also listed in the index for convenient referral. And selected references at the end of each chapter facilitate further research. Inside this 4th Edition, you'll find enhanced coverage of skin conditions ... completely revised chapters on musculoskeletal pain ... and many other updates to reflect the state of differential diagnosis today.