Patients don’t present with a disease; they present with symptoms.  Using a practical, symptom-based organization, Nelson Pediatric Symptom-Based Diagnosis: Common Diseases and their Mimics, 2nd Edition, offers authoritative guidance on differential diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders in children and adolescents, and covers the symptoms you’re likely to see in practice, their mimics, and uncommon disorders. Drs. Robert M. Kliegman, Heather Toth, Brett J. Bordini, and Donald Basel walk you through what to consider and how to proceed when faced with common symptoms such as cough, fever, headache, autistic-like behaviors, chronic pain, chest pain, gait disturbances, and much more.

• Begins with a presenting symptom and leads you through differential diagnosis and a concise review of treatment recommendations.
• Contains more than a dozen new topics including Disease Mimics: An Approach to Undiagnosed Diseases, Autistic-like Behaviors, Shock, Hypertension, Neurocognitive and Developmental Regression, Chronic Pain, Hypertonicity, Movement Disorders, Hypermobility, and more.
• Features a new focus on symptoms of rarer diseases that are mimics of more common diseases.
• Offers a user-friendly approach to Altered Mental Status such as coma and other CNS disorders, with numerous clinically useful tables and figures to guide clinical decision making in various care settings.
• Uses a highly templated format for easy reference and quick answers to clinical questions, with the same consistent presentation in each chapter: History, Physical Examination, Diagnosis (including laboratory tests), Imaging, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
• Includes numerous full-color illustrations, algorithms, tables, and “red flags” to aid differential diagnosis.
• Serves as an ideal companion to Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 21st Edition. Content in this book is referenced and linked electronically to the larger text, providing easy access to full background and evidence-based treatment and management content when you own both references.

Contents

۱. Disease Mimics : An Approach to Undiagnosed Diseases
۲. Sore Throat
۳. Cough
۴. Respiratory Distress
۵. Earache
۶. Apparent Life-Threatening Event/Brief Resolved Unexplained Event
۷. Syncope and Dizziness
۸. Chest Pain
۹. Murmurs
۱۰. Shock
۱۱. Hypertension
۱۲. Failure to Thrive
۱۳. Abdominal Pain
۱۴. Diarrhea
۱۵. Vomiting and Regurgitation
۱۶. Gastrointestinal Bleeding
۱۷. Hepatomegaly
۱۸. Jaundice
۱۹. Constipation
۲۰. Abdominal Masses
۲۱. Dysuria
۲۲. Proteinuria
۲۳. Hematuria
۲۴. Acute and Chronic Scrotal Swelling
۲۵. Menstrual Problems and Vaginal Bleeding
۲۶. Disorders of Sex Development
۲۷. Intellectual Developmental Disorders (Developmental Delay)
۲۸. Neurocognitive and Developmental Regression
۲۹. Dysmorphology
۳۰. The Irritable Infant
۳۱. Emotional and Behavioral Symptoms
۳۲. Autistic-like Behaviors
۳۳. Chronic Pain
۳۴. Headaches
۳۵. Hypotonia and Weakness
۳۶. Rhabdomyolysis
۳۷. Stroke
۳۸. Hypertonicity
۳۹. Paroxysmal Disorders
۴۰. Movement Disorders in Childhood
۴۱. Altered Mental Status
۴۲. Encephalitis
۴۳. Eye Disorders
۴۴. Arthritis
۴۵. Gait Disturbances
۴۶. Back Pain
۴۷. Hypermobility
۴۸. Lymphadenopathy and Neck Masses
۴۹. Pallor and Anemia
۵۰. Pancytopenia/Aplastic Anemia/Bone Marrow Failure
۵۱. Bleeding and Thrombosis
۵۲. Fever
۵۳. Fever and Rash
۵۴. Recurrent Fever, Immune Deficiency, and Autoinflammatory Disorders
۵۵. Disorders of Puberty
۵۶. Short Stature
۵۷. Hypoglycemia
۵۸. Polyuria and Urinary Incontinence
۵۹. Acid–Base and Electrolyte Disturbances
۶۰. Congenital Cutaneous Lesions and Infantile Rashes
۶۱. Acquired Rashes in the Older Child