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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143293403321

Titolo

Leg pain [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by] Magruder C. Donaldson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Futura, c2004

ISBN

1-280-19676-9

9786610196760

0-470-79869-6

0-470-75766-3

1-4051-4613-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DonaldsonMagruder C

Disciplina

616.13

617.5/807

Soggetti

Leg - Diseases - Diagnosis

Leg - Pathophysiology

Pain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pathophysiology of leg pain / Srdjan S. Nedeljković -- The initial encounter / Magruder C. Donaldson -- Mechanical leg pain / Tamara L. Martin and Scott D. Martin -- Inflammatory leg pain / Sang Cheol Bae and Matthew H. Liang -- Vascular leg pain / Magruder C. Donaldson -- Neuropathic leg pain / David C. Preston -- Other leg pain / Magruder C. Donaldson.

Sommario/riassunto

This small volume is devoted to one of the most common patient complaints encountered by practitioners of adult medicine, and one that frequently presents the initial examining physician with a diagnostic conundrum. Few internists, primary care physicians, emergency room physicians, or medical or surgical subspecialists are thoroughly familiar with the neurologic, orthopedic, immunologic, and vascular causes of leg pain, and help from the literature requires access to multiple texts from diverse medical and surgical specialties.  Leg Pain brings together, in a compact and easily t