Rheumatology for the House Officer

Excerpt

Most sections avoid lengthy accounts of relevant pathophysiology such as those found in standard textbooks and focus almost solely on diagnosis and treatment. The opening sections review relevant history-taking and physical examination, laboratory tests, radiology, joint aspiration and injection, and the main patterns of rheumatologic syndromes. The other sections consider specific diseases and syndromes. A practical manual likely to be helpful in giving the house officer a concise picture of the clinical problems and in deciding how to proceed.