Nelson Pediatric Symptom-Based Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Guide

As pediatricians, we know that patients don’t present with a disease, they present with symptoms. That’s why Nelson Pediatric Symptom-Based Diagnosis: Common Diseases and their Mimics, 2nd Edition offers a practical, symptom-based approach to help you diagnose and treat diseases and disorders in children and adolescents.

A Practical Approach to Differential Diagnosis

This authoritative guide is organized around the symptoms you’re likely to encounter in practice, including cough, fever, headache, autistic-like behaviors, chronic pain, chest pain, gait disturbances, and more. With the expert guidance of Drs. Robert M. Kliegman, Heather Toth, Brett J. Bordini, and Donald Basel, you’ll learn what to consider and how to proceed when faced with these common symptoms.

What to Expect

• Begins with a presenting symptom and leads you through differential diagnosis and a concise review of treatment recommendations
• Covers more than a dozen new topics, including disease mimics, autistic-like behaviors, shock, hypertension, neurocognitive and developmental regression, chronic pain, hypertonicity, movement disorders, and hypermobility
• Features a new focus on symptoms of rarer diseases that are mimics of more common diseases
• Offers a user-friendly approach to altered mental status, including coma and other CNS disorders, with numerous clinically useful tables and figures to guide clinical decision making
• Uses a highly templated format for easy reference and quick answers to clinical questions
• Includes numerous full-color illustrations, algorithms, tables, and “red flags” to aid differential diagnosis

An ideal Companion to Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics

This book serves as an ideal companion to Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 21st Edition, providing easy access to full background and evidence-based treatment and management content when you own both references.

Enhanced eBook Version Included

Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices, making it easy to stay up-to-date on the go.

Publisher: Elsevier; 2nd edition (May 20, 2022)

Language: English

Hardcover: 1264 pages

ISBN-10: 0323761747

ISBN-13: 978-0323761741