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A 57-year-old man presented to the emergency department complaining of a worsening cough.
The cough had been present for approximately two weeks and was productive of green sputum.
The patient had seen his general practitioner one week earlier and taken a course of amoxicillin
for a presumed lower respiratory tract infection with no improvement of symptoms. He was
febrile, experiencing frequent headaches and a feeling of general malaise, and had been unable
to eat solid food for the last 48 hours due to facial pain on chewing. You have been asked to assess
him and devise a management plan . . .
100 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine presents 100 real-life scenarios seen in the
hospital and community setting. A succinct summary of the patient’s history, examination
and any initial investigations is followed by a detailed consideration of the diagnosis and
management of each case, in the short, medium and, where appropriate, long term.
Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions, and choosing the best course of action
to take as a result, is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a
doctor. These extended true-to-life cases will teach students and junior doctors to recognise
important medical conditions and to develop their diagnostic and management skills.
KEY FEATURES:
• Extended case studies presented in an easy-to-read format, presenting patient history,
examination, investigations and differential diagnosis.
• Readers are guided through the clinician’s sequence of thoughts and actions as they
consider how to manage the case appropriately in the short, medium and, if necessary,
long term.
• Plentiful illustrations supplement the text.
• A broad range of conditions is covered, from acquired haemophilia to intestinal
tuberculosis.
, 100 Cases
About the Series
Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions, and choosing the best course of action to
take as a result, is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a
doctor. Te real-life cases presented in the 100 Cases series encompass emergency, ward, and
outpatient and community scenarios, and have been designed specifcally to help medical stu-
dents and junior doctors to develop their diagnostic and management skills.
100 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine
Kerry Layne
100 Cases in General Practice, 2E
Anne E. Stephenson, Martin Mueller, John Grabinar
100 Cases in Clinical Pharmacology, Terapeutics and Prescribing
Kerry Layne, Albert Ferro
100 Cases in Acute Medicine
Henry Fok, Kerry Layne and Adam Nabeebaccus
For more information about this series please visit: www.routledge.com/100-Cases/book-series/
CRCONEHUNCAS
, Second Edition
100
Diagnostic in Clinical
Dilemmas Medicine
Kerry Layne
Consultant in Acute Medicine Department
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
London, UK
100 Cases Series Editor:
Janice Rymer MBBS, FRACP
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and
Dean of Student Affairs
King’s College London School of Medicine
London, UK
Boca Raton London New York
CRC Press is an imprint of the
Taylor & Francis Group, an informa
Diagnostic
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Kerry Layne
CRC Press
Taylor & Frands Group Series Editor: Janice Rymer
, Second Edition
100
Diagnostic in Clinical
Dilemmas Medicine
A 57-year-old man presented to the emergency department complaining of a worsening cough.
The cough had been present for approximately two weeks and was productive of green sputum.
The patient had seen his general practitioner one week earlier and taken a course of amoxicillin
for a presumed lower respiratory tract infection with no improvement of symptoms. He was
febrile, experiencing frequent headaches and a feeling of general malaise, and had been unable
to eat solid food for the last 48 hours due to facial pain on chewing. You have been asked to assess
him and devise a management plan . . .
100 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine presents 100 real-life scenarios seen in the
hospital and community setting. A succinct summary of the patient’s history, examination
and any initial investigations is followed by a detailed consideration of the diagnosis and
management of each case, in the short, medium and, where appropriate, long term.
Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions, and choosing the best course of action
to take as a result, is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a
doctor. These extended true-to-life cases will teach students and junior doctors to recognise
important medical conditions and to develop their diagnostic and management skills.
KEY FEATURES:
• Extended case studies presented in an easy-to-read format, presenting patient history,
examination, investigations and differential diagnosis.
• Readers are guided through the clinician’s sequence of thoughts and actions as they
consider how to manage the case appropriately in the short, medium and, if necessary,
long term.
• Plentiful illustrations supplement the text.
• A broad range of conditions is covered, from acquired haemophilia to intestinal
tuberculosis.
, 100 Cases
About the Series
Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions, and choosing the best course of action to
take as a result, is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a
doctor. Te real-life cases presented in the 100 Cases series encompass emergency, ward, and
outpatient and community scenarios, and have been designed specifcally to help medical stu-
dents and junior doctors to develop their diagnostic and management skills.
100 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine
Kerry Layne
100 Cases in General Practice, 2E
Anne E. Stephenson, Martin Mueller, John Grabinar
100 Cases in Clinical Pharmacology, Terapeutics and Prescribing
Kerry Layne, Albert Ferro
100 Cases in Acute Medicine
Henry Fok, Kerry Layne and Adam Nabeebaccus
For more information about this series please visit: www.routledge.com/100-Cases/book-series/
CRCONEHUNCAS
, Second Edition
100
Diagnostic in Clinical
Dilemmas Medicine
Kerry Layne
Consultant in Acute Medicine Department
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
London, UK
100 Cases Series Editor:
Janice Rymer MBBS, FRACP
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and
Dean of Student Affairs
King’s College London School of Medicine
London, UK
Boca Raton London New York
CRC Press is an imprint of the
Taylor & Francis Group, an informa
