ALGORITHMS IN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

This is a book for medical students and firstyear doctors who wish to learn how to approach a patients symptoms and sharpen their skills of clinical reasoning and diagnosis Fiftyfour presenting symptoms are discussed covering approaches and conditions across various medical and surgical disciplines Each chapter sets out the thought process behind history examination and investigations for a symptom providing a systematic and practical algorithm to distinguish one differential from another The reader will gain not only a functional approach to patients presenting complaints but also learn how to better organize and apply medical knowledge in diagnostic reasoning