Main description:

This unique book is all about the art of clinical analysis. It comprises of 80 actual cases as they presented with their varied symptom complexes, encompassing a wide clinical spectrum in different subspecialties.

To begin with, it briefly discusses the basic concepts of symptoms and signs pertaining to a system, before proceeding with representative cases, which are listed according to the presenting symptoms. It describes how a sequential analysis of every point in the history, clinical examination and investigations leads to the correct diagnosis.

While reading through the cases, the keywords are highlighted, facilitating a quick revision. Each case ends with key messages that convey critical concepts of clinical medicine. Thus, this book is different and one of its kind in the sense that it does not intend to teach pediatrics at all; it purely stimulates the reader to develop a fine sense of rational thinking that facilitates clinical diagnosis in the field of pediatrics, through a self-learning, totally case-based format.

Extremely interesting for clinicians, physicians, pediatricians, hematologists, nephrologists, hepatologists, rheumatologists, cardiologists, endocrinologists, neurologists, etc. as well as medical students, teachers and practitioners.

Contents:

CLINICAL HEPATOLOGY

Case 1 Abdominal Distention with Hematemesis for Years

Case 2 Recurrent Hematemesis

Case 3 Abdominal Distention with Breathlessness in an Infant

Case 4 Abdominal Distention with Puffiness of Face

Case 5 Puffiness of Face with Edema Feet

Case 6 Abdominal Distention with Developmental Delay

Case 7 Acute Severe Jaundice

Case 8 Severe Jaundice with High Fever

Case 9 Fluctuating Jaundice

Case 10 Jaundice with Pleural Effusion

Case 11 Progressive Jaundice with Failure to Thrive in an Infant

CLINICAL PULMONOLOGY

Case 12 Breathlessness and Fever for a Day

Case 13 Breathlessness and Fever over 5 Days

Case 14 Breathlessness after few Days of Fever

Case 15 Breathlessness in a Child with Arthritis

Case 16 Sudden Onset Breathlessness in a 5-year-old

Case 17 Gradually Progressive Breathlessness in an Infant

Case 18 Breathlessness, Palpitations and Chest Pain

Case 19 Fever with Chest Pain

Case 20 Chest Pain with Fever

Case 21 Chest Pain after 2 Weeks of Fever and Cough

Case 22 Hemoptysis in a 10-year-old

Case 23 Cyanosis on Crying in an Infant

Case 24 Recent Onset Cyanosis in a 9-year-old

CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY

Case 25 Ecchymosis in an Infant

Case 26 Ecchymosis in an Older Child

Case 27 Bluish Patches in an 8-year-old Child

Case 28 Ecchymosis with Fever

Case 29 Ecchymosis with Joint Swellings

Case 30 Anemia in a 15-month-old

Case 31 Severe Anemia Noticed Incidentally

PYREXIA

Case 32 Fever for 2 Months

Case 33 Low Fever, Cough and Failure to Thrive

Case 34 High Fever, Cough and Failure to Thrive

Case 35 Fever for 2 Months (Case First)

Case 36 Fever for 2 Months (Case Second)

Case 37 Fever for 3 Months

Case 38 Fever for 6 Months

Case 39 Fever for 12 Months

Case 40 Fever and Cough for a Few Days

Case 41 Fever and Cough with Large Expectoration

Case 42 Fever with 'Changing Pneumonia'

Case 43 Fever with Irritability in an Infant

Case 44 Fever with Irritability

Case 45 Fever Followed by Generalized Convulsion

Case 46 Frequent Fever with Inability to Walk

Case 47 Fever, Lethargy and Refusal to Feed

Case 48 Fever with Neck Swelling

Case 49 Fever with Severe Abdominal Pain

Case 50 Prolonged Fever with Jaundice Later in the Illness

Case 51 Fever with Weakness of the Right Side

Case 52 Frequent Wheezing in an Infant

Case 53 Recurrent Hematuria in a 4-year-old

Case 54 Recurrent Hematuria in a 10-year-old

Case 55 Increased Precordial Activity Since Infancy

Case 56 Incidentally Noticed Murmur in an Infant

Case 57 Failure to Gain Height

Case 58 Failure to Gain Height with Onset of Puberty

Case 59 Breast Development in an 8-year-old

Case 60 Pubic Hair Development in a 31/2-year-old

Case 61 Excessive Weight Gain in a 10-year-old

Case 62 Progressive Deformity of Lower Limbs

CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY

Case 63 Limb Pain with Difficulty in Walking

Case 64 Limb Pain for a Year

Case 65 Joint Pains-Recurrent

Case 66 Joint Pains with Constitutional Symptoms

CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

Case 67 Developmental Delay Since Birth

Case 68 Regression of Milestones

Case 69 Differential Developmental Delay

Case 70 Delayed Speech in a 21/2-year-old

Case 71 Focal Convulsion in a 2-month-old

Case 72 Headache and Vomiting for a Year

Case 73 Gradually Progressive Hemiparesis

Case 74 Paucity of Left Sided Movements for 5 Days

Case 75 Irritability with Refusal to Walk

Case 76 Difficulty in Walking for 5 Years

Case 77 Difficulty in Walking, 'Head Nodding' for 8 Days

Case 78 Clumsiness of Gait Since Last 4 Years

Case 79 Fever Followed by Prolonged Seizures

Case 80 Unusual Case of Altered Sensorium

Index