Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute AbdomenOUP USA, 4 feb 2010 - 299 pagine 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. |
Sommario
1 Principles of diagnosis in acute abdominal disease | 3 |
the history | 18 |
the examination of the patient | 28 |
the grouping of symptoms and signs | 41 |
5 Laboratory and radiological tests | 54 |
6 Appendicitis | 67 |
7 The differential diagnosis of appendicitis | 84 |
8 Diverticulitis of the colon | 105 |
16 The early diagnosis of strangulated and obstructed hernias | 190 |
17 Acute abdominal symptoms due to vascular lesions | 197 |
18 Acute abdominal symptoms in women | 208 |
19 Early ectopic gestation | 217 |
20 Acute abdominal disease with genitourinary symptoms | 228 |
21 The diagnosis of acute peritonitis | 233 |
22 The early diagnosis of abdominal injuries | 241 |
23 The postoperative abdomen | 252 |
9 Perforation of a gastric or duodenal ulcer | 108 |
10 Acute pancreatitis | 122 |
11 Cholecystitis and other causes of acute pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen | 131 |
12 Acute abdominal lesions arising in the left hypochondrium | 141 |
13 The colics | 145 |
14 Acute intestinal obstruction | 153 |
15 Intussusception and other causes of obstruction | 178 |
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Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen Zachary Cope,William Silen Visualizzazione estratti - 1979 |
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