Full Description
When a few doctors get together, they always start discussing their fascinating cases, and one can learn a lot from the diagnostic journey, including the blind alleys, taken by others. Yet case report publications are rare because they are not cited. These challenging cases in paediatric respiratory medicine from all around the world, are chosen to illustrate important learning points. The format is a case scenario followed by the diagnosis, learning points, and brief background material, with references for further reading.
Key Features:
Presents educational case reports from across the world that complement existing major books, allowing the reader to see how well they can apply knowledge to challenging clinical cases
Invokes the clinician to diagnose and manage challenges in paediatric respiratory medicine
Uses high-quality images including radiography, physiology and pathology with references to key recent reviews
Contents
1. A young girl with an incidentally discovered mass on a chest radiograph
2.The boy who coughs when vomiting and vomits when coughing
3.A Neonate with Bleeding and Tracheobronchial Calcifications
4.A tale of two diagnoses
5.A Child with Interstitial Lung Disease and Hepatic Cirrhosis
6.Where is this baby's left lung?
7.Approaches to preventing infection and optimising airway clearance in a child with cerebral palsy
8.Did God do it or did the Doctor do it? A diagnostic conundrum
9. A Rare Pediatric Case of Chronic Lung Disease and Immunodeficiency
To biopsy - or not to biopsy?
10. A Boy with a Hydropneumothorax who did not get better
11.Unexplained hypoxemia in a toddler: a diagnostic journey
12.A teenager who coughed up blood
13.The Role of Flexible Bronchoscopy in Localizing Lymphatic Leak
14.Respiratory distress in an infant born to a mother with tuberculosis in Cape Town
15. BIG HEAD, STUBBORN LUNG: A QUIRKY CASE OF VENTRICULOMEGALY AND COLLAPSED LUNG
16. A case of Pulmonary Hypertension: a challenge in LMICs
17. A toddler with persistent productive cough and chest X-ray changes
18. An Infant with Intermittent Wheeze
19. PERSISTENT SEVERE WHEEZING IN A YOUNG CHILD FROM AN LMIC
20. Recurrent Pneumonia and a Mediastinal Mass
