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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827553603321

Autore

Fisher Randall G

Titolo

Moffet's pediatric infectious diseases : a problem-oriented approach / / Randall G. Fisher, MD, Thomas G. Boyce, MD, MPH, Armando G. Correa, MD

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Wolters Kluwer, c2017

Philadelphia : , : Wolters Kluwer, , [2017]

�2017

ISBN

1-4963-6744-8

Edizione

[5th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 683 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

618.92/9

Soggetti

Communicable diseases in children

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous edition: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Clinical decision making in pediatric infectious diseases -- Nose and throat syndromes -- Infectious mononucleosis and mononucucleosis-like syndromes -- Oral cavity and salivary gland syndromes -- Eye, ear, and sinus syndromes -- Face and neck syndromes -- Middle respiratory syndromes -- Pneumonia syndromes -- Neurologic syndromes -- Fever and sepsis syndromes -- Rash syndromes -- Gastrointestinal and intra-abdominal syndromes -- Hepatitis syndromes -- Urinary syndromes -- Genital syndromes -- Orthopedic syndromes -- Skin and soft-tissue syndromes -- Cardiovascular syndromes -- Congenital, perinatal, and neonatal syndromes -- HIV infection and AIDS -- Exposure problems -- Infections complicating chronic diseases -- The child with frequent, severe, or unusual infections : primary immunodeficiency syndromes.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides step-by-step diagnosis and management using a signs and symptoms approach, with a patient-oriented structure for logical development of a differential diagnosis, evaluation and treatment plan, confirmation of the diagnosis and appropriate therapy. This edition includes new medications, new names of known pathogens, new practice guidelines, and extensive revisions to chapters on urinary syndromes, hepatitis syndromes, and HIV infection and



AIDS.