Chest Pain, an Issue of Medical Clinics of North America: Volume 94-2

ISBN-13: 9781437718355 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 234 str.

Guy D. Eslick; Michael Yelland

Opis

This issue of Medical Clinics of North America covers everything the internist needs to know about the diagnosis and treatment of chest pain.? Topics covered include respiratory causes of chest pain; cardiac causes; gastroenterological causes, such as GERD and dysphagia; musculoskeletal causes, such as fibromyalgia and segmental dysfunction; psychological causes, skin and soft tissue causes, and pediatric chest pain.? A detailed master algorithm for diagnosis and management is provided, and future directions are also discussed.

O autorze

Dr. Eslick is a Professor of Surgery at the Whiteley-Martin Research Centre at The University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. He has 310 publications (including 13 monographs, 40 book chapters).