Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen

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 pain.' Because acute, severe abdominal pain is still a common problem whose misdiagnosis can result in quick death, each generation of beginning physicians is faced with the urgency of learning to make a diagnosis in this high-anxiety situation, and they appreciate the wise, humane, precisely detailed guidance offered by Cope and Silen. For the 22nd Edition, Dr. Silen has again updated the text in a respectful but significant way. He has added a chapter on the increasing disorder of diverticulitis, reexamines the use of analgesics, emphasizes the costs of over-testing, and updates all recommendations regarding trauma, radiologic studies, and therapeutic recommendations.

ISBN 0199730458   Pages 222 ISBN13 9780199730452 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 397 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc   Published in New York Imprint Oxford University Press Inc   Previous ISBN 9780195175462 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 208 Publication date 25 Feb 2010   Width (mm) 139 DEWEY 617.55075   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Plates
1		Principles of diagnosis in acute abdominal disease		3
2		Method of diagnosis: the history		18
3		Method of diagnosis: the examination of the patient		28
4		Method of diagnosis: the grouping of symptoms and signs		41
5		Laboratory and radiological tests		54
6		Appendicitis		67
7		The differential diagnosis of appendicitis		84
8		Diverticulitis of the colon		105
9		Perforation of a gastric or duodenal ulcer		108
10		Acute pancreatitis		122
11		Cholecystitis and other muses of acute pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen		131
12		Acute abdominal lesions arising in the left hypochondrium		141
13		The colics		145
14		Acute intestinal obstruction		153
15		Intussusception and other causes of obstruction		178
16		Theearlydiagnosis of strangulated and obstructed hernias		190
17		Acute abdominal symptoms due to vascular lesions		197
18		Acute abdominal symptoms in women		208
19		Early ectopic gestation		217
20		Acute abdominal disease with genitourinary symptoms		228
21		The diagnosis of acute peritonitis		233
22		The early diagnosis of abdominal injuries		241
23		The postoperative abdomen		252
24		The acute abdomen in the tropics		261
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