Unusual signs and symptoms in internal medicine / Vittorio Gallo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallo, Vittorio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symptoms.

Internal medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Torino : SEEd, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book aims at providing a support in the interpretation of the most unusual signs and symptoms that can be encountered in the clinical practice. Each sign is described in concise way (one sign/one page): a full description of the symptoms as experienced by the patient is given, followed by its clinical meaning, the diagnosis and therapeutic approach.

Contents:

Title Page; Colophon; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. An Irrepressible Desire to Eat Ice; 2. An Insatiable Thirst for Icy Water; 3. Fear of Drinking Water; 4. Strong Desire for Salt; 5. Onset of Cephalea After a Hyperproteic Meal; 6. Onset of Pain After Drinking Alcohol; 7. Loss of Taste for Cigarettes; 8. Pain in the Tongue During Mastication; 9. Dyspnoea Occurring in Lateral Decubitus; 10. Dyspnoea Occurring in Standing Position; 11. Cephalea and Palpitation Occurring During Micturition; 12. A Syncope at the End of Micturition; 13. A Beard-Shaving Syncope

14. Dark Urine Following the First Micturition of the Morning15. Foamy Urine Like Beer; 16. Urine That Changes Colour to Black; 17. Progressive Increase in the Size of Shoes, Gloves, and Hat; 18. Inopportune Laughter; 19. Erythema and Burning Feet; 20. Onset of Pain in a Leg with Sneezes or Coughs; 21. Pain in Both the Thighs in a Feverish Patient; 22. An Annoying Burning After a Hot Bath; 23. A Chronic, Widespread, and Unrestrainable Burning in a Young Woman; 24. Silver-Coloured Faeces; 25. A Strange Yellowish Colour in the Nails Accompanied by Lymphoedema

26. Bronchial Asthma in a Subject With Dyspepsia and Epigastric Pyrosis27. Rhythmic Joltings and Swinging of the Head; 28. Poorly Explainable Diarrhoea in a Patient in Treatment With Antiplatelet Drugs; 29. Seeing Yellow-Green Halos Around Objects; 30. Mental Confusion, Fever, and Dyspnoea; Author; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

88-97419-04-6

OCLC:

773565230