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Zusatztext If you are managing rheumatology problems! this is an extremely useful book to have on your shelf; if you are presented with a clinical conundrum and require more detail! this is the ideal book to refer to because both common and rare conditions are comprehensively covered. This book is strongly recommended Klappentext In this era of evidence-based medicine! one of the biggest challenges confronting clinicans is keeping abreast with often rapidly changing recommendations that guide clinical practice. While it is clearly helpful to have reearch-based guidelines and protocols to draw upon it is not always easy to process this information particularly at the time when it is needed most such as on a ward round or in a busy outpatient clinic. This textbook is designed to overcome this problem. The editors have produced a comprehensive summary of rheumatology which focuses on aspects that are important to the clinican! and in it have brought together the key recommendations found in current evidence-based guidelines and presented them in a uniform and accesible format. It has been designed and written so that locating information is both quick and simple! and the layout of the chapters allows the reader to identify and assimilate information rapidly. Zusammenfassung This new textbook of rheumatology is aimed primarily at a specialist readership offering easily-accessible, current, evidence-based information on the management of rheumatological conditions. Each topic covers typically two pages, the aim being to provide all relevant information in a single view to allow rapid access to information. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Clinical assessment of rheumatological disease ; 2. Investigation of rheumatic disease ; 3. Organ involvement in rheumatological disease ; 4. Rheumatological procedures ; 5. Regional musculoskeletal anatomy and conditions ; 6. Rheumatoid arthritis ; 7. Sponyloarthopathies ; 8. Autoimmune connective tissue diseases ; 9. Vasculitis ; 10. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis ; 11. Pregnancy and the rheumatic disease ; 12. Osetoarthritis and related disorders ; 13. Crystal arthritis ; 14. Bone disease ; 15. Collagen disorders ; 16. Musculoskeletal infection ; 17. Chronic pain ; 18. Miscellaneous ; 19. DMARDS and immunosuppressive drugs ...