Pediatric Complaints and Diagnostic Dilemmas

Download or read book Pediatric Complaints and Diagnostic Dilemmas written by Samir S. Shah and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2004 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pediatric Complaints and Diagnostic Dilemmas: A Case-Based Approach contains 119 cases in 20 chapters that cover a common chief complaint. Each chapter opens with a definition of the complaint, moves to differential diagnosis with a table on the most frequent causes, and reviews the important questions in the history. Four to eight cases in each chapter illustrate how the same chief complaint can have different causes. Case presentations cover the history of present illness, past medical history, the physical exam, diagnostic studies, and the development of the complaint over time.