Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2010 | 22nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-973045-2 (ISBN)

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This classic text is much beloved by medical students and physicians-in-training throughout the English-speaking world, as its many editions indicate. It is chock full of the pearls of clinical wisdom that students and practitioners treasure, and many of these lessons apply to medicine in general. The book was well characterized by a reviewer of an earlier edition for The New England Journal of Medicine: 'If only one book about surgery could be made available to physicians from all specialties, it should probably be Silen's recent revision of Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen. Since the book first appeared, it has remained the classic treatise on the initial approach to abdominal pain.' Because acute, severe abdominal pain is still a common problem whose misdiagnosis can result in quick death, each generation of beginning physicians is faced with the urgency of learning to make a diagnosis in this high-anxiety situation, and they appreciate the wise, humane, precisely detailed guidance offered by Cope and Silen. For the 22nd Edition, Dr. Silen has again updated the text in a respectful but significant way. He has added a chapter on the increasing disorder of diverticulitis, reexamines the use of analgesics, emphasizes the costs of over-testing, and updates all recommendations regarding trauma, radiologic studies, and therapeutic recommendations.

William Silen, MD Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery, Emeritus Harvard University Medical School Boston, MA

1. The principles of diagnosis in acute abdominal disease
2. Method of diagnosis: the history
3. Method of diagnosis: the examination of the patient
4. Method of diagnosis: the grouping of symptoms and signs
5. Laboratory and radiological tests
6. Appendicitis
7. The differential diagnosis of appendicitis
8. Diverticulitis of the colon
9. Perforation of a gastric or duodenal ulcer
10. Acute pancreatitis
11. Cholecystitis and other causes of acute pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen
12. Acute abdominal lesions arising in the left hypochondrium
13. The colics
14. Acute intestinal obstruction
15. Intussusception and other causes of obstruction
16. The early diagnosis of strangulated and obstructed hernias
17. Acute abdominal symptoms due to vascular lesions
18. Acute abdominal symptoms in women
19. Early ectopic gestation
20. Acute abdominal disease with genitourinary symptoms
21. The diagnosis of acute peritonitis
22. The early diagnosis of abdominal injuries
23. The postoperative abdomen
24. The acute abdomen in the tropics
25. Diseases that may simulate the acute abdomen
26. Acute abdominal pain in the immunocompromised patient
27. Abdominal catastrophes when sensation is impaired
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.2.2010
Zusatzinfo	65 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	206 x 137 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Viszeralchirurgie
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Gastroenterologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Anamnese / Körperliche Untersuchung
ISBN-10	0-19-973045-8 / 0199730458
ISBN-13	978-0-19-973045-2 / 9780199730452
Zustand	Neuware