DESCRIPTION:
Sharpen your diagnostic and problem-solving skills with these 85 selected pediatric teaching cases, fully detailed and illustrated
Going well beyond the purely theoretical, this collection of cases will help you simulate the thought process you would engage when working with real patients. Supplemented by excellent color photographs and radiologic images, diagnostic imaging studies, lab results, tables and schematics, and more, the book is packed with valuable information that will help clear your way to greater confidence in managing your pediatric patients.
Key Features:
- Great clinical relevance with emphasis on a case- and problem-oriented approach
- Suggestions for questions to ask in taking the history
- Answer section with detailed commentary on the individual cases
- Cases highlighting social pediatrics, adolescent psychiatry, and pediatric surgery
- Training in the use of diagnostic imaging
- Helpful as a supplement when preparing for board examinations
Kreckmann""s Pediatrics: A Case Book will be a valuable companion for students and interns preparing for clinical rotations and for pediatric board examinations as well.
This book includes complimentary access to a digital copy on https://medone.thieme.com.
CONTENTS:
Case 1. Six-year-old boy with high fever, vomiting, and headache
Case 2. Child with barking cough and dyspnea
Case 3. Child with high fever and seizure
Case 4. Apathetic infant with vertical skin folds
Case 5. Two-year old girl with colic-like stomach pains and vomiting
Case 6. Twelve-month old boy comes for health screening
Case 7. Ten-year-old boy with painfully swollen knee
Case 8. Girl with petechiae
Case 9. Infant with projectile vomiting
Case 10. Young girl with recurrent shortness of breath
Case 11. Fourteen-month-old toddler with "runny ear"
Case 12. Three-year-old boy who has had contact with chicken pox
Case 13. Five-year-old girl with swollen jaw angle
Case 14. Severely ill infant with cough and shortness of breath
Case 15. Young girl with difficulty swallowing and fatigue
Case 16. Two-year-old boy with coughing fit and cyanosis
Case 17. Twelve-month old boy with screaming fit and swollen testicles
Case 18. Eight-year-old boy with macrohematuria
Case 19. Boy almost one year old with failure to thrive
Case 20. Macrosomal newborn after obstructed labor with shoulder dystocia
Case 21. Ten-year-old girl with fever and headache
Case 22. Eight-year-old boy with high fever and rash
Case 23. Five-year-old girl after fall from jungle gym
Case 24. Infant with high fever, sucking weakness, and vomiting
Case 25. Toddler burned by boiling water
Case 26. Five-year-old girl with stomach ache and anal itching
Case 27. Fourteen-year-old girl with weight loss and social withdrawal
Case 28. Newborn whose mother has poorly-controlled diabetes mellitus
Case 29. Five-year-old girl with hematuria
Case 30. Three-year-old boy with macrohematuria
Case 31. Feverish two-year-old girl with pustulent crusty rash
Case 32. Hypotrophic newborn with noticeable phenotype
Case 33. Five-year-old boy with knee pain and protective limping
Case 34. Ten-year-old boy with scleral icterus
Case 35. Fifteen-month-old child with an abrasion and no tetanus vaccine protection
Case 36. Fifteen-year-old girl found unconscious with hypothermia
Case 37. Two-year-old child who has ingested an unknown fluid
Case 38. Five-day-old newborn with icterus and sucking weakness
Case 39. Three-year-old girl with refusal to eat
Case 40. Newborn with morphological abnormalities
Case 41. Two siblings with itching eczematous changes in skin of the head
Case 42. Consultation regarding "sudden infant death syndrome"
Case 43. Five-year-old boy with high fever and abdominal pain
Case 44. Four-year-old boy with recurrent urinary tract infections
Case 45. Seven-year-old boy with pneumonia and bone pain
Case 46. Four-year-old boy with fever and exanthema
Case 47. Four-year-old girl with facial swelling
Case 48. Five-year-old girl with pale skin and splenomegaly
Case 49. Seven-year-old girl with headaches and abnormal behavior
Case 50. Four-year-old boy with pain in right lower abdomen
Case 51. Three-year-old girl with protective posture of right arm
Case 52. Ten-year-old boy with tingling paresthesia, speech disorder, and headache
Case 53. Sixteen-month old boy with undescended testis
Case 54. Eight-year-old boy with abdominal pain and weight loss
Case 55. Premature birth in 28th week of pregnancy with shortness of breath and abdominal pain on pressure
Case 56. Five-year-old boy with intense abdominal pain
Case 57. Two-year-old boy with high fever, rash, and swollen joints
Case 58. Four-month-old, screaming infant with inguinal swelling
Case 59. Nineteen-month-old girl with bloody diarrhea, hematomas, and anuria
Case 60. Newborn with persistent cyanosis
Case 61. Four-year-old boy with rattling breath and hypersalivation
Case 62. Six-year-old boy with failure to thrive and recurrent pulmonary infections
Case 63. Fourteen-year-old girl who collapsed on a school trip
Case 64. Three-year-old boy with deteriorating general condition and gastroenteritis
Case 65. Healthy newborn delivered by cesarean section
Case 66. Eleven-year-old boy with high fever and joint pain
Case 67. Newborn boy with conspicuous genitals
Case 68. Six-year-old girl with conspicuous appearance
Case 69. Premature baby with acute deterioration of general condition
Case 70. Four-year-old girl with fatigue and difficulty concentrating
Case 71. Exasperated parents with an eight-weeks-old screaming baby in the emergency department
Case 72. Five-month-old infant with severe cough for the last few weeks
Case 73. Fourteen-year-old girl with recurrent abdominal pain
Case 74. Fifteen-year-old boy with no sign of developing puberty
Case 75. Two infants after falling from the changing table
Case 76. Attendance in the delivery room for newborn with congenital deformities
Case 77. Newborn born in the 41st week of pregnancy after pathological CTG
Case 78. Young boy with palpitations, reduced performance, and shortness of breath
Case 79. Boy, almost two years old
