Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis

The essential guide to help the reader move from a presenting problem through to confident diagnosis Provides practical help when dealing with problems outside your field of expertise, and with unforeseen situations Describes the reasoning processes used to arrive at diagnosis and how to explain a rationale to colleagues, patients, and relatives Aids in developing essential skills for all medical professionals New to this edition Includes vital information on initial and longer-term treatments after diagnosis Provides rarer diagnoses alongside common presenting problems Additional images now included to aid understanding Fully revised for its third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis provides a concise and practical summary of the reasoning processes behind clear and confident diagnosis. The handbook is set out systematically with symptoms and signs through each specialty, and includes a detailed description of the basis of logical evidence-based differential diagnosis.