The Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology, 4th edition has been fully reviewed and updated to make it into an invaluable guide for students, trainees, consultant rheumatologists, and everyone caring for patients with musculoskeletal disease. With the addition of a paediatric rheumatologist to the editor team, this new edition is a fully functional rheumatology handbook for patients from childhood to adulthood.

Practically structured, the handbook focuses first on presenting symptoms and then considers key diseases, emergencies, and rare diseases in detail. There is a comprehensive and updated account of assessment, guidelines, and treatment options. The text has been condensed with bullet points and summary boxes so the reader can focus on the essential information. To aid understanding over half of the images have been updated and the colour plate section has been expanded.

Taking a clinical, evidence-based approach, written by experts, and presented in a clear, practical, bullet-point style for rapid reference, this handbook will be your constant companion and a joy to use.

Review

offers a welcome addition to the practitioner’s library because of its handy, pocket-sized format… a practical, clinically-oriented guide that can be rapidly and easily consulted. * Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology * [The book] is a comprehensive and extremely practical guide and a valuable companion to any health professional working in rheumatology…[I] would highly recommend this pocket guide to both trainees and qualified practitioners with an interest in the speciality. * British Health Professionals in Rheumatology * The book provides an outstanding review of all major topics relevant to rheumatology. It is definitely a book worth keeping close by for anyone training in rheumatology. * Amazon * Review from previous edition This is a comprehensive pocket size text that no self-respecting healthcare professional working in this field should be without. * Nursing Standard *

Contents

۱ Evaluating rheumatological and musculoskeletal symptoms
۲ Musculoskeletal assessment and patterns of disease: making a working diagnosis
۳ Regional musculoskeletal symptoms: making a working diagnosis
۴ The spectrum of disorders associated with adult rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases
۵ Rheumatoid arthritis
۶ Osteoarthritis
۷ Crystal-induced musculoskeletal disease
۸ The spondyloarthritides including psoriatic arthritis
۹ Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
۱۰ Systemic lupus erythematosus
۱۱ Antiphospholipid syndrome
۱۲ Sjogren’s syndrome
۱۳ Systemic sclerosis and related disorders
۱۴ Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies including polymyositis and dermatomyositis
۱۵ Primary vasculitides
۱۶ Metabolic bone diseases
۱۷ Infection and rheumatic disease
۱۸ Rare autoinflammatory and miscellaneous diseases
۱۹ Hereditary disorders of connective tissue
۲۰ Common upper limb musculoskeletal lesions
۲۱ Spinal disorders and back pain
۲۲ Chronic pain syndromes
۲۳ Drugs used in rheumatology practice
۲۴ Glucocorticoid injection therapy
۲۵ Rheumatological emergencies