Description
This is a textbook for medical students covering orthopaedics, trauma and rheumatology, offering both core information regarding what the student needs to know about these subject areas and an extensive series of cases with questions and answers that illustrate the thinking behind common everyday practice. The package also offers online access to the text and images, plus an additional 80 interactive MCQs and answers (on www.studentconsult.com).Provides a comprehensive overview of musculoskeletal medicine and surgery perfectly tailored for the busy medical studentIllustrated in full colour throughoutSuccinct coverage of essential topics helps aid understanding whilst avoid unnecessary detail thus saving timeUniform style of chapters throughout allows readers to easily scan through for the information requiredUseful summary boxes outline the main points of each condition including aetiology, pathology, epidemiology, clinical features, investigations, management and prognosis100 case histories with questions illustrate the range of clinical problems that students will encounter during their clinical placementsDirect linking of cases to chapters so that readers can refer back to sections of core text whenever required, or look up cases relevant to a particular chapterOnline access to the text and images, plus 80 interactive MCQs and answers, on www.studentconsult.com
Chapter
Chapter 1. Clinical history and examination
NEUROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE UPPER LIMB
NEUROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE LOWER LIMB
‘RED FLAGS’ IN NONTRAUMATIC DISORDERS
Chapter 2. Physiology and pathology of the musculoskeletal system
Chapter 3. Epidemiology and genetics of rheumatic diseases
HERITABILITY AND FAMILIALITY OF RHEUMATIC DISEASES
SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS AND REACTIVE ARTHRITIS
Chapter 4. Investigations
PART 2: MANAGEMENT OF MUSCULOSKELETAL PROBLEMS
Chapter 5. Medical management of arthritis
NON-STEROIDAL ANTIINFLAMMATORY DRUGS
DISEASE-MODIFYING ANTI-RHEUMATIC DRUGS
MUSCULOSKELETAL INFECTION
Chapter 6. Role of the allied health professional
ROLE OF THE PHYSIOTHERAPIST
ROLE OF THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
ROLE OF THE ORTHOTIST AND ORTHOSES
Chapter 7. Surgical management of joint disorders
Chapter 8. Principles of fracture management
OPERATIVE TREATMENT METHODS
Chapter 9. Local complications of fractures
Chapter 10. General complications of fractures
DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS AND PULMONARY EMBOLUS
COMPLICATIONS OF IMMOBILITY
Chapter 11. Management of multiple trauma
MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURIES IN MULTIPLE TRAUMA
Chapter 12. Children’s fractures
STRUCTURE OF A CHILD’S BONE
Chapter 13 Regional injuries
Chapter 14. Generalized musculoskeletal problems
Chapter 15 Osteoarthritis and crystal arthropathies
CRYSTAL ARTHRITIS AND DEPOSITION-ASSOCIATED DISEASE
Chapter 16. Inflammatory arthritis
ARTHRITIS ASSOCIATED WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
POST-INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS
PREGNANCY AND THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES
Chapter 17. Systemic diseases
SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME
RAYNAUD’S PHENOMENON AND SCLERODERMA
Chapter 18. Systemic complications of rheumatic diseases and rare arthropathies
GASTROINTESTINAL PROBLEMS
LYMPHOMA RISK/ CANCER RISK
SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS IN CHILDHOOD
Chapter 19. Bone disorders
OSTEONECROSIS (AKA AVASCULAR NECROSIS, ASEPTIC NECROSIS, BONE INFARCTION OR OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS)
Chapter 20. Tumours of the musculoskeletal system and pathological fractures
Chapter 22. Cervical and lumbar spine
DEGENERATIVE CONDITIONS OF THE CERVICAL SPINE
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS OF THE CERVICAL SPINE
SPONDYLOLYSIS (AKA BROKEN VERTEBRA)
THORACIC SPINAL PATHOLOGY
Chapter 24. Normal variants in children
Chapter 25. Upper limb disorders in children
OBSTETRIC BRACHIAL PLEXUS PALSY
Chapter 26. Lower limb disorders in children
PAEDIATRIC FOOT AND ANKLE
PAEDIATRIC HIP JOINT CONDITIONS
Chapter 27. The paediatric spine and neuromuscular conditions
DISORDERS OF UPPER MOTOR NEURONE, SPINAL CORD, PERIPHERAL NERVES AND MUSCLE IN CHILDREN
Chapter 28. Arthritis in children
COMPLICATIONS OF JUVENILE ARTHRITIS
MANAGEMENT OF JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS
Chapter 29. Musculoskeletal problems in the developing world
MUSCULOSKELETAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION
BONE AND JOINT TUBERCULOSIS
Problem-orientated section
Textbook of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rheumatology
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