Table of Contents
Section I. Differential Diagnosis
Section II. A--Z in Detail
Section III. Cancer Staging Tables
Key Features
A-Z entries on common and important surgical diseases and symptoms,
designed for speed and specificity.
Unique, comprehensive "Differential Diagnosis" section with more than
400 surgical symptoms and diseases and their corresponding
differential diagnoses.
Cancer staging tables included in separate section.
Each entry is a well-organized, two-page spread that includes terse,
bulleted, specific information on the essentials of diagnosis,
clinical findings, laboratory and imaging findings, treatment,
ongoing management, prevention, practice guidelines, and select
references.
Each entry includes "When to Admit" and "When to Refer" sections
which identify when serious conditions warrant hospitalization and
provide guidance on when to refer the patient to a specialist.
Created to meet the daily information needs of busy clinicians and
trainees.
Provides clinicians and trainees with authoritative, on-the-spot
reference of the most important differentail diagnoses in surgery.
Supplements core information on cancer diagnoses in the "A-to-Z"
section.
Rigorously designed "point of care" information for the busy
clinician.
