Challenging Cases in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Test and enhance your diagnostic know-how and refine your clinical skills with this all-new collection of 50 consice, high-interest case studies. Includes more than 160 full-color photographs and radiographs to illustrate clinical conditions. An excellent training and self -study tool. Each chapter focuses on a single case with a detailed description of patient presentation, self -assessment questions to gauge your knowledge, inlcuding: What is your differential diagnosis? How will you evaluate the patient? How will you treat the diagnosed condition? Step-by-step diagnostic approaches; essential considerations for differential diagnosis, The latest treatment and management recommendations, Practical tips and key issues to keep in mind. Chapters include: Case Reports in Newborns and Infants, Fever and Facial Swelling, Papulopustular Rash, Bullous Lesions, Swollen Eyelid, Waxy, Scaly, Itchy Rash, Pustular Rash, Cat Scratch Wound, Fever and a Rash, Fever, Red Eyes, and Rash, Persistent, Painless Finger Nodule, Visicles, Pustules, and Crusted Lesions, and much more.Powell, Keith R. is the author of 'Challenging Cases in Pediatric Infectious Diseases ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781581101850 and ISBN 1581101856.