Main description:

A pragmatic approach to differential diagnosis gives rapid, reliable answers to these questions: Which diseases are likely? What causes them? What are the typical characteristics of these disorders? Do they correspond with the symptoms in question? How can the preliminary diagnosis be confirmed? Siegenthaler's new Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine guides the reader through the challenges of differential diagnosis across the spectrum of internal medicine.

Practice-orientated learning:

Identify and understand key symptoms
Consider the whole patient in selecting possible diseases
Evaluate, exclude or confirm possible diagnoses
Make the correct diagnosis using an appropriate diagnostic procedure

Professor Walter Siegenthaler brings decades of international experience in clinical practice, teaching and writing on internal medicine to this new book. The book also benefits from close cooperation with the leaders of the specialist internal medicine departments at the University Hospital Zurich, and of other institutions and disciplines. The generalist and specialist aspects of internal medicine are thereby brought together to enhance the approach to the patient.

The book is directed at medical students, residents in most areas of medicine, practitioners of internal medicine, general practitioners, dermatologists, neurologists and rheumatologists and those involved with the basic subjects in medicine who wish to gain competence and knowledge in internal medicine.

From Symptom to Diagnosis:

Organized by functional system and symptom constellations
Covers all fields of internal medicine plus special treatment of subjects dermatology, neurology and rheumatology
Typical findings and signs for differentiation of all common, rare and even "exotic" diseases with pathophysiological background information
Nearly 1000 stunning figures and many instructive table-format overviews and differential diagnostic algorithms
Differential diagnostic evaluation of common laboratory test results, including step-by-step plans for further diagnosis
Learn by tracing the path from symptom to diagnosis, just as the physician encounters the situation in practice!

Contents:

General Differential Diagnosis

1 General Aspects of Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis

2 History, Physical Examination and Important Subjective Complaints

3 Skin and External Appearance

Fever

4 Fever

Pain

5 Head and Facial Pain and Neuralgia of the Head Area

6 Chest Pain

7 Abdominal Pain

8 Neurogenic Arm and Leg Pain

9 Pain Due to Vascular Disease

10 Pain in Joint Diseases

11 Localized Bone Lesions

Edema

12 Generalized and Localized Edema

Hematological Symptoms

13 Anemia

14 Disorders of the Lymphatic System

15 Bleeding Diathesis and Thrombophilic Diathesis

Disorders of the Head and Neck

16 Disorders of the Head and Neck

Pulmonary Symptoms

17 Cough, Expectoration, and Shortness of Breath

18 Pulmonary Opacities

19 Enlargement of the Hilum

Cardiac Symptoms

20 Dyspnea Due to Cardiovascular Diseases

21 Cyanosis

22 Arrhythmias

23 Systemic Arterial Hypertension

24 Systemic Arterial Hypotension

Gastrointestinal Symptoms

25 Jaundice

26 Dysphagia

27 Diarrhea

28 Constipation

Nephrologic Symptoms

29 Abnormal Renal Function

30 Water, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Disorders

Neurologic Symptoms

31 Vertigo and Syncopal Conditions

32 Coma and Disturbances of Consciousness

Differential Diagnosis of Laboratory Test Results

33 Differential Diagnosis of Laboratory Test Results