A concise, colorful alternative to more detailed textbooks of medicine, this latest edition incorporates a large number of color photographs to show key presenting signs and symptoms as they are seen in practice. Offering a remarkable value, it features over 1,500 illustrations including clinical photographs, endoscopic images, ultrasound scans, ECG's, and summary tables. In addition to the illustrations, the book provides concise accompanying text, detailed legends, and Key Facts boxes to make exam revision easier. An unrivalled collection of clinical images depicts presenting signs and trains the reader to recognize the physical signs of underlying disorders. Focusing on only the essential concepts, it makes learning and retention much easier. A convenient and portable size makes the book more manageable and appealing. A more accessible writing style, with headings and bullet points, assists speed reading and review. Key Facts boxes increase retention. Color photos and imaging pictures (CTs/MRIs) have been improved.

Bestselling author Fred F. Ferri, MD, FACP-known for his succinct, at-a-glance guidance in clinical decision making-offers a one-of-a-kind approach to the diagnosis of virtually every condition encountered in daily practice. Inside this new reference you'll find nearly 4,000 images-the largest collection of medical images ever assembled in a primary care resource. For each condition examined, the text presents several images from a multiple-modality perspective that together provide a clear picture for obtaining an accurate identification. Differential diagnosis references accompanying each image help you avoid possible misdiagnoses. As an Expert Consult title, this text offers convenient access to the complete contents online, allowing you to perform quick searches, cross reference differential diagnosis references with even greater efficiency, and download all of the images from the book. Provides access to the complete contents online, allowing you to perform quick searches, cross reference differential diagnoses with even greater efficiency, and download all of the images from the book. Features nearly 4,000 high-quality photographs-complemented by concise explanatory text-to help you quickly identify and diagnose virtually every condition encountered in daily practice. Presents several images for each condition correlating various characteristic visual findings. Concisely summarizes each condition's definition, key features, differential diagnosis, therapeutic options, and relevant ICD-9-CM codes. Presents differential diagnosis references for each image to help you rule out conditions with a similar presentation. Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the web site be discontinued.

Covering the whole of clinical medicine, this work comprises illustrations highlighting the clinical signs of all major medical disorders, accompanied by radiological, ultrasound, endoscopic and other images. Each chapter provides a guide to symptoms, investigations, common and rare disorders.

High-quality clinical photos help make this a comprehensive yet succinct overview of the subject which can be used as a 'bedside' companion.

Increased global travel has facilitated the spread of diseases that were previously restricted in their distribution. The fifth Edition of this internationally acclaimed book combines over 1,000 outstanding illustrations and expanded, authoritative text covering the clinical diagnosis, pathology and ecology of all recognized tropical and parasitic diseases.