A pragmatic approach to differential diagnosis gives rapid, reliable answers to these questions: Which diseases are likely? What causes them? What are the typical characteristics of these disorders? Do they correspond with the symptoms in question? How can the preliminary diagnosis be confirmed? Siegenthaler's new Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine guides the reader through the challenges of differential diagnosis across the spectrum of internal medicine.

Practice-orientated learning:

- Identify and understand key symptoms- Consider the whole patient in selecting possible diseases- Evaluate, exclude or confirm possible diagnoses- Make the correct diagnosis using an appropriate diagnostic procedure

Professor Walter Siegenthaler brings decades of international experience in clinical practice, teaching and writing on internal medicine to this new book. The book also benefits from close cooperation with the leaders of the specialist internal medicine departments at the University Hospital Zürich, and of other institutions and disciplines. The generalist and specialist aspects of internal medicine are thereby brought together to enhance the approach to the patient.

The book is directed at medical students, residents in most areas of medicine, practitioners of internal medicine, general practitioners, dermatologists, neurologists and rheumatologists and those involved with the basic subjects in medicine who wish to gain competence and knowledge in internal medicine.

From Symptom to Diagnosis:

- Organized by functional system and symptom constellations- Covers all fields of internal medicine plus special treatment of subjects dermatology, neurology and rheumatology- Typical findings and signs for differentiation of all common, rare and even "exotic" diseases with pathophysiological background information- Nearly 1000 stunning figures and many instructive table-format overviews and d

General Differential Diagnosis
1 General Aspects of Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis
2 History, Physical Examination and Important Subjective Complaints
3 Skin and External Appearance
Fever
4 Fever
Pain
5 Head and Facial Pain and Neuralgia of the Head Area
6 Chest Pain
7 Abdominal Pain
8 Neurogenic Arm and Leg Pain
9 Pain Due to Vascular Disease
10 Pain in Joint Diseases
11 Localized Bone Lesions
Edema
12 Generalized and Localized Edema
Hematological Symptoms
13 Anemia
14 Disorders of the Lymphatic System
15 Bleeding Diathesis and Thrombophilic Diathesis
Disorders of the Head and Neck
16 Disorders of the Head and Neck
Pulmonary Symptoms
17 Cough, Expectoration, and Shortness of Breath
18 Pulmonary Opacities
19 Enlargement of the Hilum
Cardiac Symptoms
20 Dyspnea Due to Cardiovascular Diseases
21 Cyanosis
22 Arrhythmias
23 Systemic Arterial Hypertension
24 Systemic Arterial Hypotension
Gastrointestinal Symptoms
25 Jaundice
26 Dysphagia
27 Diarrhea
28 Constipation
Nephrologic Symptoms
29 Abnormal Renal Function
30 Water, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Disorders
Neurologic Symptoms
31 Vertigo and Syncopal Conditions
32 Coma and Disturbances of Consciousness
Differential Diagnosis of Laboratory Test Results
33 Differential Diagnosis of Laboratory Test Results