Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen

Name: Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen
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ISBN: 9780199730452

ISBN-10: 0199730458

ISBN-13: 9780199730452

Edition: 22nd 2010

Authors: William Silen, Zachary Cope

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This classic text is much beloved by medical students and physicians-in-training throughout the English-speaking world, as its many editions indicate. It is chock full of the pearls of clinical wisdom that students and practitioners treasure, and many of these lessons apply to medicine in general. The book was well characterized by a reviewer of an earlier edition for The New England Journal of Medicine: 'If only one book about surgery could be made available to physicians from all specialties, it should probably be Silen's recent revision of Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen. Since the book first appeared, it has remained the classic treatise on the initial approach to abdominal…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Edition: 22nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.51" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Plates



Principles of diagnosis in acute abdominal disease



Method of diagnosis: the history



Method of diagnosis: the examination of the patient



Method of diagnosis: the grouping of symptoms and signs



Laboratory and radiological tests



Appendicitis



The differential diagnosis of appendicitis



Diverticulitis of the colon



Perforation of a gastric or duodenal ulcer



Acute pancreatitis



Cholecystitis and other causes of acute pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen



Acute abdominal lesions arising in the left hypochondrium



The colics



Acute intestinal obstruction



Intussusception and other causes of obstruction



The early diagnosis of strangulated and obstructed hernias



Acute abdominal symptoms due to vascular lesions



Acute abdominal symptoms in women



Early ectopic gestation



Acute abdominal disease with genitourinary symptoms



The diagnosis of acute peritonitis



The early diagnosis of abdominal injuries



The postoperative abdomen



The acute abdomen in the tropics



Diseases that may simulate the acute abdomen



Acute abdominal pain in the immunocompromised patient



Abdominal catastrophes when sensation is impaired


Index