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Zusatztext "The book provides a unique learning and revision tool in realistic cases that are likely to arise. They are all presented in an easy-to-read format! with summarizing key points at the end."- Orthopaedic Product News Informationen zum Autor Parminder J Singh MBBS, MRCS, FRCS(Tr&Orth) MS, Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon and Senior Lecturer, Maroondah Hospital, Monash and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Catherine Swales MRCP PhD, Arthritis Research UK Clinical Research Fellow and Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK Klappentext A 24-year-old woman attends Rheumatology outpatients with an eight week history of painful hands. On examination she is tearful and thin. You are the medic on duty...100 Cases in Orthopaedics and Rheumatology presents 100 scenarios commonly seen by medical students and junior doctors in orthopaedic and rheumatology clinics, or in the emergency department. A succinct summary of the patient's history, examination and initial investigations, with clinical and/or imaging photographs, is followed by questions on the diagnosis and management of each case. The answer includes a detailed discussion on each topic, with further illustration where appropriate, providing an essential revision aid as well as a practical guide for students and junior doctors. Making clinical decisions and choosing the best course of action is one of the most challenging and difficult parts of training to become a doctor. These cases will teach students and junior doctors to recognize important symptoms and signs and, where appropriate, their relationship to other medical conditions, and to develop their diagnostic and management skills. Zusammenfassung This book will teach students and junior doctors to recognize important conditions in orthopaedics and rheumatology, and to develop their diagnostic and management skills, in a format that encourages self-directed learning, clinical thinking and problem-solving. Inhaltsverzeichnis ORTHOPAEDICS, Case 1 A painful knee in a neonate, Case 2 Atraumatic painful joints in a boy, Case 3 An atraumatic painful hip, Case 4 An expanding mass in the leg of an adolescent, Case 5 A boy with a swollen mass in his thigh,, Case 6 A painful collarbone, Case 7 A painful proximal humerus in an elderly woman, Case 8 A boy with a painful elbow, Case 9 A painful distal radius following a fall, Case 10 A painful thumb following a fall, Case 11 A painful hip following a fall, Case 12 Knee pain following a traffic accident, Case 13 A painful swollen elbow in a young girl, Case 14 A painful thigh following a violent fall, Case 15 Groin pain following a fall, Case 16 A swollen painful leg after a sporting incident, Case 17 A painful and swollen knee following an accident, Case 18 A crushed leg, Case 19 A painful foot following a traffic incident, Case 20 A hindfoot injury following a fall from height, Case 21 Curvature of the spine, Case 22 Severe low back pain, Case 23 A clicky hip in a toddler, Case 24 Hip and thigh pain in a 7-year-old boy, Case 25 A painful hip in an adolescent, Case 26 Groin and buttock pain in an elderly man, Case 27 Lateral hip pain, Case 28 A painful red swollen knee, Case 29 Swelling in the back of the knee, Case 30 A mildly swollen knee in a young man, Case 31 An atraumatic painful knee in an elderly woman, Case 32 An unstable knee in a young man, Case 33 An injured ankle, Case 34 Deformed feet in a newborn child, Case 35 High-arched feet in a young girl, Case 36 Flat feet in a young girl, Case 37 A painful and swollen ankle, Case 38 Deformed feet in an elderly woman, Case 39 A stiff great toe, Case 40 Misshapen toe in a middle-aged woman (1), Case 41 Misshapen toe in a middle-aged woman (2), Case 42 Foot pain following a riding fall, Case 43 A deformed, swollen and ulcerated foot, Case 44 A stiff shoulder, Case 45 Elbow pain (1), Case 46 Elbow pain (2),...
