Signs and Symptoms in Pediatrics, 2nd Edition [Paperback]

Description

Completely updated and revised, the second edition outlines the key signs and symptoms associated with a wide range of illnesses affecting children, from common infections to rare disorders.

This convenient handbook helps you effectively evaluate patient complaints and develop sound differential diagnoses and management strategies for more than 80 diagnostic challenges.

Look here for the essentials on everything from abdominal, back, and chest pain...to fever, fatigue, headache, and heart murmurs...to rash, red eye, sleep disturbances, and speech and language concerns...plus much more.  Coverage also extends to evaluation of mental health symptoms, including anxiety, depression, disruptive behavior, emotional disturbance, inattention and impulsivity, and self-injury.

Contents include:

• Abdominal Distention
• Abdominal Pain
• Alopecia and Hair Shaft Anomalies
• Amenorrhea
• Anemia and Pallor
• Anxiety and Trauma-related Distress
• Ataxia
• Back Pain
• Cardiac Arrhythmias
• Chest Pain
• Constipation
• Cough
• Cyanosis
• Depressive Symptoms
• Diarrhea and Steatorrhea
• Disruptive Behavior and Aggression
• Dizziness and Vertigo
• Dysmenorrhea
• Dysphagia
• Dyspnea
• Dysuria
• Edema
• Epistaxis
• Extremity Pain
• Facial Dysmorphism
• Failure to Thrive: Pediatric Undernutrition
• Families with Functional Impairments
• Fatigue and Weakness
• Fever
• Fever of Unknown Origin
• Foot and Leg Problems
• Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
• Headache
• Hearing Loss
• Heart Murmurs
• Hematuria
• Hemoptysis
• Hepatomegaly
• High Blood Pressure
• Hirsutism, Hypertrichosis, and Precocious Sexual Hair Development
• Hoarseness
• Hyperhidrosis
• Hypotonia
• Inattention and Impulsivity
• Irritability and Fussiness
• Jaundice
• Joint Pain
• Learning Difficulty
• Limp
• Loss of Appetite
• Lymphadenopathy
• Macrocephaly
• Medically Unexplained Symptoms
• Microcephaly
• Nonconvulsive Periodic Disorders
• Odor (Unusual Urine and Body)
• Petechiae and Purpura
• Polyuria
• Proteinuria
• Pruritus
• Puberty: Normal and Abnormal
• Rash
• Recurrent Infections
• Red Eye/Pink Eye
• School Absenteeism and School Refusal
• Scrotal Swelling and Pain
• Self-injury
• Self-stimulating Behaviors
• Short Stature
• Sleep Disturbances (Nonspecific)
• Speech and Language Concerns
• Splenomegaly
• Stress in Gender Diverse Youth
• Stridor
• Substance Use: The Role of the Pediatrician
• Symptoms of Emotional Disturbance in Children Younger than 5 Years
• Symptoms of Emotional Disturbance in Children Older than 5 Years
• Syncope
• Temper Tantrums and Breath-holding Spells
• Tics
• Torticollis
• Vaginal Bleeding
• Vaginal Discharge
• Vomiting
• Weight Loss
• Wheezing

Details

• ISBN-13: 978-1-61002-820-2
• Product Code: MA1183
• Publication Date: October 15, 2025
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 900
• Availability: Pre-Order