Full Description
This book comprehensively reviews clinical aspects and features of rheumatic and musculo-skeletal diseases in an integrated and easy to read format. It enables the reader to become confident in identifying common and unusual disease symptoms and be able to apply a variety of diagnostic modalities and evaluate potential treatment options. Every disease covered has a variety of clinically relevant images detailing both typical and rare signs and symptoms. Each image is accompanied by a detailed description covering relevant epidemiological data, diagnostic modalities and treatment options.
The Illustrated Handbook of Rheumatic and Musculo-Skeletal Diseases, 2ndEdition has been fully revised with new content and clinical photographs throughout each chapter. Rheumatologists seeking a comprehensive and clinically relevant guide for the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of rheumatic and allied diseases will find this bookto be an essential resource in their daily clinical practice.
Contents
1. Clinical Examination of the musculoskeletal system.- 2. Laboratory and immunological tests in Rheumatology.- 3. Rheumatoid Arthritis.- 4. Sjögren's syndrome.- 5. Psoriatic Arthritis.- 6. Ankylosing Spondylitis.- 7. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome.- 8. Scleroderma.- 9. Inflammatory Myopathies.- 10. Vasculitides.- Osteoarthritis.- 11. Crystal arthropathies.- 12. Gout.- 13. Pseudogout (Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Crystal Deposition Disease).- 14. Hydroxyapatitie.- 15. Complex regional pain syndromes.- 16. Osteoporosis.- 17. Osteonecrosis.- 18. Miscellaneous conditions.- 19. Sarcoidosis.- 20. Relapsing polychondritis.- 21. DISH (Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis.- 22. Adverse drug reactions in Rheumatology.
