Rheumatology in Practice

• Main Authors: Pereira da Silva, Jose Antonio (Author), Woolf, Anthony D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Rheumatology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

Rheumatology in Practice offers chapters which are organised and built around anatomical and regional syndromes, so reinforcing the evidence-based approach. As readers progress through the text they are given more demanding and challenging questions, encouraging them to use their diagnostic skills t...

Table of Contents:

• The Importance of Rheumatic Diseases
• Pain, Disease and Suffering an Integrated Perspective
• The Structure and Function of the Musculoskeletal System Sources of Pain
• Diagnostic Strategy the Main Syndromes in Rheumatology
• The Standard Enquiry in Rheumatology
• The General Clinical Examination
• Regional Syndromes Neck pain
• Regional Syndromes The Painful Shoulder
• Regional Syndromes The Elbow And Forearm
• Regional Syndromes the Wrist and Hand
• Regional Syndromes Low Back Pain
• Regional Syndromes The Hip
• Regional Syndromes The Knee
• Regional Syndromes the Foot and Ankle
• Generalized Pain Syndrome Fibromyalgia
• Osteoarthritis
• Inflammatory Arthritides Diagnostic Strategies
• Monoarthritis
• Chronic, Additive, Symmetrical, Peripheral Polyarthritis
• Chronic, Asymmetrical Oligo- Or Polyarthritis
• Chronic Proximal Oligoarthritis
• Arthritis of the Shoulder and Pelvic Girdles Polymyalgia Rheumatica
• Acute Oligo- or Polyarthritis Febrile Arthritis Arthritis with Mucocutaneous Manifestations
• Inflammatory Low Back Pain
• Systemic Syndromes Connective Tissue Diseases Vasculitis Raynaud’s Phenomenon
• Osteoporotic Syndrome Osteoporosis
• Bone Syndrome Bone Diseases
• Rheumatic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents
• Treating Rheumatic Diseases
• Drugs Commonly Used in Rheumatic Diseases.