Physical Diagnosis in Medicine

Physical Diagnosis in Medicine covers the procedures for physical examination and for diagnosis of common causes of abnormal physical signs. This book is composed of eight chapters that also outline the physical signs encountered in common medical conditions. The opening chapters deal with the preliminary general appraisal of the patient for a number of important physical sign, appearance, behavior, and mental state. The rest of the book outlines the schematic approach allowing an overall assessment concerning conditions of the nervous, cardio-vascular, gastrointestinal, hemotopoietic, respiratory, and endocrine systems. The final chapter considers the procedures for examination of the joints. This book will prove useful to general medical practitioners.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE Chapter 1: PRELIMINARY APPRAISAL OF THE PATIENT Publisher Summary PALLOR AND PLETHORA CYANOSIS PIGMENTATION JAUNDICE SPOT DIAGNOSIS EXAMINATION OF THE HANDS Chapter 2: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM Publisher Summary APPEARANCE AND GENERAL BEHAVIOUR THE SKULL THE SPINE CRANIAL NERVES FIRST CRANIAL NERVE (OLFACTORY) SECOND CRANIAL NERVE (OPTIC NERVE) THE THIRD, FOURTH AND SIXTH CRANIAL NERVES THE THIRD CRANIAL NERVE (OCULOMOTOR) THE FOURTH CRANIAL NERVE (TROCHLEAR) THE SIXTH CRANIAL NERVE (ABDUCENS) THE FIFTH CRANIAL NERVE (TRIGEMINAL) THE SEVENTH CRANIAL NERVE (FACIAL) THE EIGHTH CRANIAL NERVE (ACOUSTIC) NINTH AND TENTH CRANIAL NERVES (GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL AND VAGUS) THE ELEVENTH CRANIAL NERVE (SPINAL-ACCESSORY) THE TWELFTH CRANIAL NERVE (HYPOGLOSSAL) EXAMINATION OF THE LIMBS AND TRUNK EXAMINATION OF THE LOWER LIMB NEUROLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS THE EXAMINATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS PATIENT Chapter 3: THE CARDIO-VASCULAR SYSTEM Publisher Summary THE PULSE DETERMINATION OF THE BLOOD PRESSURE THE EXAMINATION OF THE PULSATIONS IN THE NECK EXAMINATION OF THE PRAECORDIUM CARDIAC LESIONS SIGNS OF CARDIAC FAILURE SIGNS OF BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS PERICARDIAL LESIONS Chapter 4: THE GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM Publisher Summary Examination of the lips Examination of the teeth, gums and buccal mucosa Examination of the tongue THE ABDOMEN AREA IDENTIFICATION OF OTHER ABDOMINAL SWELLINGS Chapter 5: THE HAEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM Publisher Summary ANAEMIA POLYCYTHAEMIA LYMPHADENOPATHY PURPURA SPLENOMEGALY AND HEPATOMEGALY Chapter 6: THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM Publisher Summary Inspection Palpation Percussion Auscultation Inspection of the sputum CORRELATION OF THE PHYSICAL SIGNS WITH UNDERLYING PATHOLOGY Chapter 7: THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM Publisher Summary Thyrotoxicosis Myxoedema Addison's disease Cushing's syndrome Acromegaly Hypopituitarism Hypoparathyroidism Chapter 8: EXAMINATION OF JOINTS Publisher Summary ARTHROPATHIES INDEX