Differential Diagnosis of Acute Pain: By Body Region - Hardcover

Wiener, Stanley L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070701776 ISBN 13: 9780070701779

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional, 1993

Synopsis

This uniquely organized one-volume text charts the way for early and accurate diagnosis of acute pain in specific regions of the body. No other single text provides such a user-friendly, methodical guide to differential diagnosis of acute pain.

Each chapter includes never-before-seen features for rapid review or thorough analysis of competing diagnoses. These features include:

*pain-pattern illustrations that depict the pain site
* a differential diagnostic list that surveys the possible causes of pain for that body region
* a concise summary that allows for rapid review of the chapter content; detailed descriptions of each disorder in the diagnostic list with confirming physical signs, laboratory and imaging findings
* a table of incidence that provides an estimate of the frequency of each disorder

About this title

Review:

``Best Written'' (American Medical Writers Association)

``A stunning welcome addition to the library of medicine- a masterly synthesis of clinical information.'' (New England Journal of Medicine)

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0070701776
• ISBN 13: 9780070701779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 845