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Surgery at a Glance
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2013.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Part 1 Clinical presentations at a glance
- 1: Neck lump
- Definition
- Differential diagnosis
- Thyroid
- Neoplasm
- Inflammatory
- Congenital
- Vascular
- Important diagnostic features
- Children
- Young adults
- Over-40s
- 2: Dysphagia
- Definition
- Important diagnostic features
- Mural causes
- Intraluminal causes
- Extramural causes
- 3: Haemoptysis
- Definition
- Important diagnostic features
- Spurious haemoptysis
- True haemoptysis
- 4: Breast lump
- Definition
- Differential diagnosis
- Swelling of the whole breast (mammoplasia)
- Localized swellings in the breast
- Swellings behind the breast
- 5: Breast pain
- Definition
- Important diagnostic features
- Non-breast conditions
- Mastalgia due to breast pathology
- Mastalgia without breast pathology
- 6: Nipple discharge
- Definition
- Differential diagnosis
- Physiological discharges
- Pathological discharges
- 7: Gastrointestinal bleeding/1
- Definitions
- Upper GI bleeding
- Important diagnostic features
- Oesophagus
- Stomach
- Duodenum
- Gastrointestinal bleeding/2
- Lower GI bleeding
- Important diagnostic features
- Small intestine
- Colon
- Rectum
- Anus
- 8: Dyspepsia
- Definition
- Differential diagnosis
- Oesophagus
- Stomach
- Duodenum
- Gallstones
- 9: Vomiting
- Definitions
- Important diagnostic features
- Central vomiting
- Reflex vomiting
- 10: Acute abdominal pain
- Definitions
- Important diagnostic features
- History of the pain
- Abdominal examination
- 11: Chronic abdominal pain
- Definition
- Important diagnostic features
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Adhesions
- Mesenteric angina
- Meckel's diverticulum
- 12: Abdominal swellings (general)
- Definition
- Important diagnostic features
- 'Fat'
- 'Flatus'
- 'Fluid'
- 'Faeces'
- 'Fetus'
- 'Flipping big mass'
- 13: Abdominal swellings (localized)
- upper abdominal/1
- Abdominal swellings (localized)
- upper abdominal/2
- 14: Abdominal swellings (localized)
- lower abdominal
- 15: Jaundice
- Definition
- Differential diagnosis
- Pre-hepatic/haemolytic jaundice
- Hepatic/hepatocellular jaundice
- Post-hepatic/obstructive jaundice
- 16: Diarrhoea
- Definitions
- Important diagnostic features
- Acute diarrhoea
- Chronic diarrhoea
- 17: Altered bowel habit/constipation
- Definitions
- Important diagnostic features
- Chronic constipation
- 18: Groin swellings
- Definition
- Important diagnostic features
- Inguinal hernia
- Femoral hernia
- Principles of hernia surgery
- 19: Claudication
- Definition
- Differential diagnosis
- Vascular
- Neurological
- 20: Acute warm painful leg
- Definitions
- Important diagnostic features
- Infection
- Trauma
- Degenerative
- Tumours
- Vascular
- 21: Acute 'cold' leg
- Definition
- Important diagnostic features
- Isolated arterial embolus
- Trauma