Tag: Differential Diagnosis
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Book Review: Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases (1996) by David Schlossberg MD is one of those rare let-me-try-to-tell-you-in-350-pages-or-less-everything-I’ve-ever-learned-in-a-lifetime-of-clinical-practice types of medical books. Unlike most microbiology and infectious diseases books, which are organized on the basis of bugs or diseases, Differential Diagnosis is arranged on the basis of specific clinical problems or chief complaints (fever, pneumonitis, diarrhea, rash, arthritis or…
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Weakness: An Approach
As a first step, neuromuscular weakness should be distinguished from its mimics, which are: Mental fatigue bradykinesia Decreased range of motion Depression Movement limited by pain. “Abnormal fatigability of striated muscle is the cardinal manifestation of disorders of the neuromuscular junction. Exercise-dependent weakness often affects the extraocular muscles first, causing ptosis or diplopia, as the…
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Book Review: Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis (2009) by Stephen G. Davies
I’ve been reading and annotating this book for close to a month now, and I barely scratched the surface in terms of absorbing the enormous amount of useful information stuffed into this relatively small 500 page handbook. Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis (2009), edited by Stephen G. Davies, is an extremely helpful handbook for interpreting…