Full Description
Patients don't present with a disease; they present with symptoms. Using a practical, symptom-based organization, Nelson Pediatric Symptom-Based Diagnosis: Common Diseases and their Mimics, 2nd Edition, offers authoritative guidance on differential diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders in children and adolescents, and covers the symptoms you're likely to see in practice, their mimics, and uncommon disorders. Drs. Robert M. Kliegman, Heather Toth, Brett J. Bordini, and Donald Basel walk you through what to consider and how to proceed when faced with common symptoms such as cough, fever, headache, autistic-like behaviors, chronic pain, chest pain, gait disturbances, and much more.
Begins with a presenting symptom and leads you through differential diagnosis and a concise review of treatment recommendations.
Contains more than a dozen new topics including Disease Mimics: An Approach to Undiagnosed Diseases, Autistic-like Behaviors, Shock, Hypertension, Neurocognitive and Developmental Regression, Chronic Pain, Hypertonicity, Movement Disorders, Hypermobility, and more.
Features a new focus on symptoms of rarer diseases that are mimics of more common diseases.
Offers a user-friendly approach to Altered Mental Status such as coma and other CNS disorders, with numerous clinically useful tables and figures to guide clinical decision making in various care settings.
Uses a highly templated format for easy reference and quick answers to clinical questions, with the same consistent presentation in each chapter: History, Physical Examination, Diagnosis (including laboratory tests), Imaging, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
Includes numerous full-color illustrations, algorithms, tables, and "red flags" to aid differential diagnosis.
Serves as an ideal companion to Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 21st Edition. Content in this book is referenced and linked electronically to the larger text, providing easy access to full background and evidence-based treatment and management content when you own both references.
Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Contents
SECTION 1 Symptom-Based Diagnosis
1 Disease Mimics: An Approach to Undiagnosed Diseases
SECTION 2 Respiratory Disorders
2 Sore Throat
3 Cough
4 Respiratory Distress
5 Earache
6 Apparent Life-Threatening Event/Brief Resolved Unexplained Event
SECTION 3 Cardiac Disorders
7 Syncope and Dizziness
8 Chest Pain
9 Murmurs
10 Shock
11 Hypertension
SECTION 4 Gastrointestinal Disorders
12 Failure to Thrive
13 Abdominal Pain
14 Diarrhea
15 Vomiting and Regurgitation
16 Gastrointestinal Bleeding
17 Hepatomegaly
18 Jaundice
19 Constipation
20 Abdominal Masses
SECTION 5 Genitourinary Disorders
21 Dysuria
22 Proteinuria
23 Hematuria
24 Acute and Chronic Scrotal Swelling
25 Menstrual Problems and Vaginal Bleeding
26 Disorders of Sex Development
SECTION 6 Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders
27 Intellectual Developmental Disorders (Developmental Delay
28 Neurocognitive and Developmental Regression
29 Dysmorphology
30 The Irritable Infant
31 Emotional and Behavioral Symptoms
32 Autistic-like Behaviors
SECTION 1 Symptom-Based Diagnosis
1 Disease Mimics: An Approach to Undiagnosed Diseases
SECTION 2 Respiratory Disorders
2 Sore Throat
3 Cough
4 Respiratory Distress
5 Earache
6 Apparent Life-Threatening Event/Brief Resolved Unexplained Event
SECTION 3 Cardiac Disorders
7 Syncope and Dizziness
8 Chest Pain
9 Murmurs
10 Shock
11 Hypertension
SECTION 4 Gastrointestinal Disorders
12 Failure to Thrive
13 Abdominal Pain
14 Diarrhea
15 Vomiting and Regurgitation
16 Gastrointestinal Bleeding
17 Hepatomegaly
18 Jaundice
19 Constipation
20 Abdominal Masses
SECTION 5 Genitourinary Disorders
21 Dysuria
22 Proteinuria
23 Hematuria
24 Acute and Chronic Scrotal Swelling
25 Menstrual Problems and Vaginal Bleeding
26 Disorders of Sex Development
SECTION 6 Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders
27 Intellectual Developmental Disorders (Developmental Delay
28 Neurocognitive and Developmental Regression
29 Dysmorphology
30 The Irritable Infant
31 Emotional and Behavioral Symptoms
32 Autistic-like Behaviors
33 Chronic Pain
SECTION 7 Neurosensory Disorders
34 Headaches
35 Hypotonia and Weakness
36 Rhabdomyolysis
37 Stroke
38 Hypertonicity
39 Paroxysmal Disorders
40 Movement Disorders in Childhood
41 Altered Mental Status
42 Encephalitis
43 Eye Disorders
