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.
Table of Contents
SECTION 1 Symptom-Based Diagnosis1 Disease Mimics: An Approach to Undiagnosed DiseasesSECTION 2 Respiratory Disorders2 Sore Throat3 Cough4 Respiratory Distress5 Earache6 Apparent Life-Threatening Event/Brief Resolved Unexplained EventSECTION 3 Cardiac Disorders7 Syncope and Dizziness8 Chest Pain9 Murmurs10 Shock11 HypertensionSECTION 4 Gastrointestinal Disorders12 Failure to Thrive13 Abdominal Pain14 Diarrhea15 Vomiting and Regurgitation16 Gastrointestinal Bleeding17 Hepatomegaly18 Jaundice19 Constipation20 Abdominal MassesSECTION 5 Genitourinary Disorders21 Dysuria22 Proteinuria23 Hematuria24 Acute and Chronic Scrotal Swelling25 Menstrual Problems and Vaginal Bleeding26 Disorders of Sex DevelopmentSECTION 6 Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders27 Intellectual Developmental Disorders (Developmental Delay28 Neurocognitive and Developmental Regression29 Dysmorphology30 The Irritable Infant31 Emotional and Behavioral Symptoms32 Autistic-like BehaviorsSECTION 1 Symptom-Based Diagnosis1 Disease Mimics: An Approach to Undiagnosed DiseasesSECTION 2 Respiratory Disorders2 Sore Throat3 Cough4 Respiratory Distress5 Earache6 Apparent Life-Threatening Event/Brief Resolved Unexplained EventSECTION 3 Cardiac Disorders7 Syncope and Dizziness8 Chest Pain9 Murmurs10 Shock11 HypertensionSECTION 4 Gastrointestinal Disorders12 Failure to Thrive13 Abdominal Pain14 Diarrhea15 Vomiting and Regurgitation16 Gastrointestinal Bleeding17 Hepatomegaly18 Jaundice19 Constipation20 Abdominal MassesSECTION 5 Genitourinary Disorders21 Dysuria22 Proteinuria23 Hematuria24 Acute and Chronic Scrotal Swelling25 Menstrual Problems and Vaginal Bleeding26 Disorders of Sex DevelopmentSECTION 6 Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders27 Intellectual Developmental Disorders (Developmental Delay28 Neurocognitive and Developmental Regression29 Dysmorphology30 The Irritable Infant31 Emotional and Behavioral Symptoms32 Autistic-like Behaviors33 Chronic PainSECTION 7 Neurosensory Disorders34 Headaches35 Hypotonia and Weakness36 Rhabdomyolysis37 Stroke38 Hypertonicity39 Paroxysmal Disorders40 Movement Disorders in Childhood41 Altered Mental Status42 Encephalitis43 Eye Disorders
