Pediatric Rheumatology in Clinical Practice

✍ Scribed by Patricia Woo CBE, MBBS, PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, Ronald M. Laxer MD, FRCPC, David D. Sherry MD (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Pediatric Rheumatology in Clinical Practice is authored by a trio of experts from the UK, US and Canada. The book presents the physician with key points and summary boxes about various symptoms, making the book a useful quick reference guide. 79 illustrations, most of them in color, enhance the text.

Pediatric Rheumatology in Clinical Practice will be of particular interest to rheumatologists in practice, residents on rotation through the rheumatology clinic, primary care physicians, hospital doctors, as well as to senior nursing staff.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
General Presentation of Musculoskeletal Problems in Childhood....Pages 3-15
General Principles of Management....Pages 16-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis ( JIA)....Pages 23-46
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)....Pages 47-65
Juvenile Dermatomyositis....Pages 66-76
Scleroderma....Pages 77-89
Overlap Syndromes....Pages 90-96
Vasculitis....Pages 97-117
Lyme Arthritis....Pages 118-122
Autoinflammatory Syndromes....Pages 123-136
Acute Rheumatic Fever and Post Streptococcal Arthritis....Pages 137-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Noninflammatory Mechanical Pain Syndromes....Pages 145-154
Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain....Pages 155-165
Hereditary Conditions of Bone and Cartilage....Pages 166-174
Back Matter....Pages 175-188

✦ Subjects

Rheumatology; Pediatrics; Internal Medicine