Differential Diagnosis in General Medicine

Ahran Arnold

• Editore: University of Buckingham Press
• Anno: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781789551440
• Argomento: Medicine
• Categoria: Internal Medicine & Diagnosis

The essential guide to differential diagnoses

Appreciation of the differential diagnosis for a particular symptom or sign has been a pillar of the practise of general medicine for generations of doctors.

Keeping a broad differential in mind when approaching the new patient is often key to avoid pitfalls of tunnel vision in management. Equally, the importance of the differential diagnosis in undergraduate and postgraduate examinations cannot be understated.

This book contains a series of lists of differential diagnoses for general medical presentations. We hope it will be of use for doctors wishing to refresh their memory with a quick reference guide, students of undergraduate medicine as well as postgraduate doctors in preparation for Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) examinations.

The best way to navigate the book is to identify the symptom or clinical feature required using the contents pages but the lists can be read in sequence for general readers.

Abdominal mass

Left

Transplanted kidney

Diverticular abscess

Carcinoma Colon

Right

Crohn’s disease

Appendular abscess

Ovarian tumour

Caecal cancer

Lymph nodes

Abdominal pain

Appendicitis

Gastritis

Peptic ulcer disease

Cholecystitis

Pancreatitis

Renal colic

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Obstruction of small or large intestine

Hepatitis

Pyelonephritis

Diverticulitis

Salpingitis

Cystitis

Ruptured ectopic pregnancy

Malignancy

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Peritonitis

Abnormal gait

Upper motor neuron hemiplegia

Parkinson’s disease (shuffling gait)

Cerebellar lesions (broad based gait)

Spastic paraplegia

Posterior column lesion
(positive Romberg’s test)

B12 deficiency

Syphillis

High stepping gait (foot drop)

Proximal Myopathy (waddling gait)

Involuntary movements

Chorea

Athetosis

Dystonia

Hemiballismus

Absent radial pulse

Subclavian artery stenosis

Blalock-taussig shunt

Takayasu’s arteritis

Embolism

Aberrant vessels

Catheterization of brachial artery

Alopecia

Drugs

Telogen effluvium

Alopecia areata

Iron deficiency

Hypothyoidism

Acute Renal Failure

Pre renal

Hypovolaemia

Renal Artery Stenosis

Renal

Acute tubular necrosis

Vasculitis

Accelerated hypertension

Haemolytic uraemic syndrome

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic
purpura

Pre-eclampsia

Glomerulonephritis

Drugs

Pyelonephritis

Gout

Post renal

Obstructive uropathy

Asci...