Pediatric Diagnostic Medicine: A Collection of Cases

Description:

Using a practical, case-based  presentation, Pediatric Diagnostic Medicine helps you develop diagnostic skills, gain further knowledge through interesting cases, and improve critical thinking to reach a correct diagnosis. Dr. Andrew J. White, vice chair of education and director of the residency program at Washington University in St. Louis, presents dozens of real-world cases highlighted by full-color photographs. This unique case collection is an invaluable resource for pediatricians, residents, hospitalists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and anyone who provides care to children. 

Table of Contents:

1 It’s Just a Virus

2 Lucky Break

3 Sleepy

4 No Iris? No!

5 Riverbed Rales

6 But I had No Injury

7 Nonstandard Transmission

8 A Remote Consideration—But Always in Mind

9 Tropical

10 “It Hurts to Sit”

11 Gall

12 It’s in the Genes

13 Ben’s Little Secret

14 Tales of Great Ulysses

15 Candy

16 One or the Other—Maybe Both

17 Chigger Bites

18 A Fever a Day

19 Another Video Game Complication

20 Not Your Grandmother’s HUS

21 “How’d It Get There?”

22 Karma

23 Tip of the Tongue

24 C Minus

25 Two Part Perf

26 Stumped

27 A Lot of O in TORCH

28 Pod Problems

29 Murphy’s Sign of the Times

30 Spurge

31 Under Pressure

32 Don’t Give Me Any Lip

33 The Kicker

34 Polycythemia NOT Vera

35 Run Over

36 It’s Never Lupus

37 Springtime Seizure

38 Kneed I Say More?

39 Reflux Rebuff

40 Down and Out

41 Hark, the Herald Angels Sing

42 Slobber

43 Off the Wall

44 Rats!

45 Flip Flop

46 I Told You It Hurt

47 A Little Mottling

48 Tic Toc, Doc

49 Epulis

50 Big Boy Colic

51 A Definite Eating Disorder

52 Incomplete and Atypical

53 Follow the Leader

54 Vampire Bites

55 Chips Ahoy, Matey

56 A Shower an Hour

57 Phone a Friend

58 Fish Eggs or Coffee Beans

59 One Foot in the Graves

60 Mixed

61 Back to Basics

62 One Year

63 Not Just Baby Fat

64 Botulism to Abuse

65 Prescreen

66 PET Positive

67 Constipated Thinking

68 I Heard GERD

69 July 1st Disease

70 The Eyes Have It

71 Out of Shape

72 Routine

73 It’s All in Your Head

74 Too Much of a Good Thing

75 Insufficient

76 ICP

77 Hard Stop

78 The Usual Suspects

79 Too Low to Blow

80 I’m From the Future

81 Social History—Contributory

82 Better Get a Bucket

83 Don’t Hold Your Breath

84 Basketball Player Down

85 1 mL/mile

86 Baby Blues

87 MOG

88 Try Again

Index