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Handbook of diseases / Springhouse ; Stacey A. Follin, David P. Lenker ; editors ; Arlene M. Coughlin [and fifteen others] contributors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diseases--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Diseases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (991 p.)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Now in its Third Edition, this best-selling handbook is a practical, authoritative guide to more than 600 diseases. Pocket-sized, alphabetically organized, and filled with tips, alerts, and checklists, it targets the key information busy clinicians need at the bedsideusigns and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and patient concerns. This edition includes new entries on infectious diseases caused by biological agents and antibiotic-resistant organisms, complex regional pain syndrome, rhabdomyolysis, and the new Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease variant. Also new to this edition are Age Alerts, citing pediatric and geriatric considerations, and Gender Issue icons, highlighting gender-related variations in a disease's incidence, course, and treatment.
- Contents:
- ""HANDBOOK OF DISEASES, Third Edition""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors and consultants""; ""Foreword""; ""DISEASES""; ""LESS COMMON DISEASES""; ""SELECTED REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4511-6697-4
- OCLC:
- 923528802
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