Pediatric Rheumatology in Clinical Practice

✍ Scribed by Ronald M. Laxer, David D. Sherry, Philip J. Hashkes (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This second edition is primarily for trainees and junior pediatric residents in adult rheumatology who will be seeing pediatric patients with rheumatic diseases. The short chapters have clear tables and many clinical photos to demonstrate key features of diseases and allow the reader to be well informed when seeing patients with rheumatic diseases. This book also allows the readers to develop and approach the field and develop differential diagnoses.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
General Presentation of Musculoskeletal Problems in Childhood....Pages 1-22
General Principles of Management....Pages 23-30
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)....Pages 31-62
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus....Pages 63-89
Juvenile Dermatomyositis....Pages 91-105
Scleroderma and Related Disorders....Pages 107-127
Overlap Syndromes....Pages 129-140
Vasculitis....Pages 141-179
Lyme Arthritis....Pages 181-187
Autoinflammatory Syndromes....Pages 189-216
Acute Rheumatic Fever and Post-Streptococcal Arthritis....Pages 217-225
Noninflammatory Mechanical Pain Syndromes....Pages 227-240
Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain....Pages 241-255
Hereditary Conditions of Bone and Cartilage....Pages 257-266
Benign and Malignant Tumors Involving the Musculoskeletal System....Pages 267-277
Back Matter....Pages 279-294

✦ Subjects

Rheumatology;Pediatrics