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Here's a portable, concise guide to differential diagnosis for over 900 signs, symptoms and clinical disorders. Differential diagnoses are listed both by presenting sign or symptom and by clinical disorder, so you can confirm your diagnosis accurately, completely, and quickly. This is a versatile, easy-to-use reference you'll consult every day.
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ABDOMINAL DISTENTION ABDOMINAL PAIN, DIFFUSE ABDOMINAL PAIN, EPIGASTRIC ABDOMINAL PAIN, SUPRAPUBIC ABDOMINAL PAIN, RIGHT UPPER QUADRANT ABDOMINAL PAIN, LEFT LOWERQUADRANT ABDOMINAL PAIN, PERIUMBILICAL ABDOMINAL PAIN, RIGHT LOWER QUADRANT ABDOMINAL PAIN, LEFT LOWER QUADRANT ABDOMINAL PAIN, INFANCY ABDOMINAL PAIN, CHILDHOOD ABDOMINAL PAIN, ADOLESCENCE ABDOMINAL PAIN, POORLY LOCALIZED ABDOMINAL PAIN, PREGNANCY ABDOMINAL PAIN, PREGNANCY ABSCESS, BRAIN ABSCESS, BREAST ABSCESS, LIVER ABSCESS, LUNG ABSCESS, PELVIC ABSCESS, PERIRECTAL ACHALASIA ACHES AND PAINS, DIFFUSE ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE ACIDOSIS, LACTIC ACIDOSIS, METABOLIC ACIDOSIS RESPIRATORY ACNE VULGARIS ACOUSTIC NEUROMA ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS) ACROMEGALY ACTINOMYCOSIS ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME (ARDS) ACUTE SCROTUM ADDISON'S DISEASE ADNEXAL MASS ADRENAL MASSES ADYNAMIC ILEUS AEROPHAGIA (BELCHING, ERUCTATION) AGORAPHOBIA AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION, PEDIATRIC AGE AKINETIC/RIGID SYNDROME ALDOSTERONISM, PRIMARY ALKALOSIS, METABOLIC ALKALOSIS, RESPIRATORY ALOPECIA ALTITUDE SICKNESS ALVEOLAR CONSOLIDATION ALVEOLAR HEMORRHAGE ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (AD) AMAUROSIS FUGAX AMBLYOPIA AMEBIASIS AMENORRHEA AMNESIA AMYLOIDOSIS AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) ANAL INCONTINENCE ANAPHYLAXIS ANEMIA, APLASTIC ANEMIA, AUTOIMMUNE, HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA, DRUG-INDUCED ANEMIA, IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA, LOW RETICYLOCYTE COUNT ANEMIA, MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA, PERNICIOUS ANEMIA, SIDEROBLASTIC ANERGY, CUTANEOUS ANEURYSMS, THORACIC AORTA ANGINA PECTORIS ANGIOEDEMA ANAL FISTULA ANION GAP,DECREASE ANION GAP INCREASE ANISOCORIA ANORECTAL FISSURE ANOREXIA NERVOSA ANOVULATION ANTHRAX ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY (ANA) POSITIVE ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY SYNDROME (APS) ANXIETY AORTIC DISSECTION AORTIC STENOSIS APPENDICITIS APPETITE LOSS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN ARTERIAL OCCLUSION ARTHRITIS AND EYE LESIONS ARTHRITIS AND HEART MURMUR ARTHRITIS AND MUSCLE WEAKNESS ARTHRITIS AND RASH ARTHRITIS AND SUBCUTANEOUS NODULES ARTHRITIS AND WEIGHT LOSS ARTHRITIS, AXIAL SKELETON ARTHRITIS, FEVER, AND RASH ARTHRITIS, GRANULOMATOUS ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE, RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, MONOARTICULAR AND OLIGOARTICULAR ARTHRITIS PEDIATRIC AGE ARTHRITIS, POLYARTIC ARTHITIS, PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID ARTHITIS, SEPTIC ASBESTOSIS ASCITES ASPERGILLOSIS ASTHMA ASTHMA, CHILDHOOD ATAXIA ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA ATELECTASIS ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ATRIAL MYXOMA ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT (ASD) ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) AUTISTIC DISORDER AV NODAL BLOCK BABESIOSIS BACK PAIN BAKER'S CYST BALANITIS BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS BASAL CELL CARCINOMA BASOPHILIA BEHCET'S DISEASE BELL'S PALSY BIPOLAR DISORDER BLADDER CANCER BLASTOMYCOSIS BLEEDING, LOWER GI BLEEDING, LOWER GI, PEDIATRIC BLEEDING, UPPER GI BLEEDING TIME ELEVATION BLEEDING, UPPER GI, PEDIATRIC BLEPHARITIS BLINDNESS, GERIATRIC AGE BLINDNESS, PEDIATRIC AGE BLISTERS, SUBEPIDERMAL BONE LESIONS, PREFERENTIAL SITE OF ORIGIN BONE MARROW FIBROSIS BONE PAIN BONE RESORPTION BOTULISM BRADYCARDIA, SINUS BREAST CANCER BREAST INFLAMMATORY LESION BREAST MASS BREATH ODOR BREATHING, NOISY BRONCHIECTASIS BRONCHITIS, ACUTE BRUXISM BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME BULIMIA BULLOUS DISEASES BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID BURSITIS CALCIFICATION ON CHEST X-RAY CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING CARCINOID SYNDROME CARDIAC ARREST, NONTRAUMATIC CARDIAC ENLARGEMENT13 CARDIAC MURMURS CARDIAC TAMPONADE CARDIOGENIC SHOCK CARDIOMYOPATHY, CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY, RESTRICTIVE CARPAL TUNNEL CAT SCRATCH DISEASE CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS CAVITARY LESION ON CHEST X-RAY CELIAC DISEASE CELLULITIS CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE, ISCHEMIC CERVICAL CANCER CERVICAL DISC DISEASE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA CERVICAL POLYP CERVICITIS CHAGAS DISEASE CHANCROID CHARCOT'S JOINT CHEST PAIN, CHILDREN CHEST PAIN (NONPLEURITIC) CHEST PAIN (PLEURITIC) CHICKENPOX CHOLANGITIS CHOLECYSTITIS CHOLELITHIASIS CHOLESTASIS CHOREOATHETOSIS CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME CIRRHOSIS, PRIMARY BILIARY CLAUDICATION CLUBBING COCAINE OVERDOSE COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS COLOR CHANGES, CUTANEOUS COLORADO TICK FEVER COLORECTAL CANCER COMA COMA, NORMAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY COMA, PEDIATRIC POPULATION CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE CONJUNCTIVITIS CONSTIPATION CONVERSION DISORDER CORNEAL ABRASION CORNEAL ULCERATION COR PULMONALE COSTOCHONDRITIS COUGH CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE CROHN'S DISEASE CRYPTOCOCCOSIS CRYPTORCHIDISM CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME CUSHING'S SYNDROME CYANOSIS CYSTIC FIBROSIS CYSTICERCOSIS CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION DECUBITUS ULCER DELIRIUM DELIRIUM, DIALYSIS PATIENT DEMYELINATING DISEASES DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DEPRESSION DE QUERVAIN'S TENOSYNOVITIS DERMATITIS, ATOPIC DERMATITIS, CONTACT DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS DERMATOMYOSITIS DIABETES INSIPIDUS DIABETES MELLITUS DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS DIARRHEA, TUBE-FED PATIENT DIFFUSE INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE DIGITALIS OVERDOSE DIPHTERIA DIPLOPIA, BINOCULAR DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION DIVERTICULAR DISEASE DRY EYE DUMPING SYNDROME DYSFUNCTIONAL UTERINE BLEEDING DYSMENORRHEA DYSPAREUNIA DYSPNEA DYSTONIA DYSPHAGIA DYSURIA EARACHE ECHINOCOCCOSIS ECLAMPSIA ECTOPIC ACTH SECRETION ECTOPIC PREGNANCY EDEMA, CHILDREN EDEMA, GENERALIZED EDEMA, LEG, UNILATERAL EDEMA OF LOWER EXTREMITIES EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME ELECTROMECHANICAL DISSOCIATION ELEVATED HEMIDIAPHRAGM EMBOLI, ARTERIAL23 EMESIS, PEDIATRIC AGE EMPYEMA ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL ENCEPHALOPATHY, METABOLIC ENCOPRESIS ENDOCARDITIS, SUBACUTE ENDOMETRIAL CANCER ENDOMETRIOSIS ENTHESOPATHY EOSINOPHILIC FASCIITIS EOSINOPHILIC PNEUMONIA EOSINOPHILURIA EPICONDYLITIS EPIDIDYMITIS EPIGLOTTITIS EPILEPSY EPISCLERITIS EPISTAXIS EPSTEIN-BARR INFECTION ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION, ORGANIC ERYSIPELAS ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME ERYTHEMA NODOSUM ESOPHAGEAL CANCER ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION ESSENTIAL TREMOR EXANTHEMS EYE PAIN FACIAL PAIN FAILURE TO THRIVE FATIGUE FACIAL PARALYSIS FATTY LIVER FATTY LIVER OF PREGNANCY FELTY'S SYNDROME FEMORAL NECK FRACTURE FEMORAL NECK FRACTURE FEVER AND RASH FIFTH DISEASE FIBROMYALGIA FILARIASIS FLANK PAIN FLATULENCE AND BLOATING FLUSHING FOLLICULITIS FOOD POISONING FOOT PAIN FOREARM AND HAND PAIN FRIEDRICH'S ATAXIA FROZEN SHOULDER GAIT ABNORMALITIES GALACTORRHEA GANGLIA GARDNER'S SYNDROME GASTRIC CANCER GASTRIC EMPTYING, DELAYED GASTRIC EMPTING, RAPID GASTRITIS GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE GENITAL DISCHARGE, FEMALE GENITAL SORES GIANT CELL ARTERITIS GIARDIASIS GILBERT'S DISEASE GLAUCOMA, NARROW ANGLE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, ACUTE GLOSSITIS GLUCOCORTICOID DEFICIENCY GOITER GONORRHEA GOODPASTURE SYNDROME GOUT GRANULOMA ANNULARE GRANULOMA INGUINALE GRANULOMATOUS DISORDERS GRANULOMATOUS LIVER DISEASE GRAVES' DISEASE GROIN PAIN, ACTIVE PATIENT GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME GYNECOMASTIA HALITOSIS HAND-FOOT-MOUTH DISEASE HAND PAIN AND SWELLING HEADACHE HEADACHE AND FACIAL PAIN HEADACHE CLUSTER HEARING LOSS, ACUTE HEARTBURN AND INDIGESTION HEAT ILLNESS HEEL PAIN, PLANTAR HELLP SYNDROME HEMARTHROSIS HEMATURIA HEMATURIA, CAUSE BY AGE AND SEX HEMIPARESIS/HEMIPLEGIA HEMOCHROMATOSIS HEMOLYSIS AND HEMOGLOBINURIA HEMOLYSIS, INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME HEMOPHILIA HEMOPTYSIS HEMORRHOIDS HEMOSIDERINURIA HENOCH-SCHONLEIN PURPURA HEPATIC COMA HEPATIC CYSTS HEPATIC GRANULOMAS HEPATITIS A HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS B HEPATITIS C HEPATITIS, CHRONIC HEPATITIS D HEPATITIS E HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA HEPATOMEGALY HEPATORENAL SYNDROME HERMAPHRODITISM HERPANGINA HERPES SIMPLEX, ORAL HERPES SIMPLEX, GENITAL HERPES ZOSTER HIATAL HERNIA HICCUPS HIP PAIN, CHILDREN HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY HISTOPLASMOSIS HIRSUTISM HIV INFECTION, ANORECTAL LESIONS HIV INFECTION, CHEST RADIOGRAPHIC HIV INFECTION, COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT HIV INFECTION, CUTANEOUS MANIFESTATIONS HIV INFECTION, ESOPHAGEAL DISEASE HIV INFECTION, LOWER GI TRACT DISEASE HIV INFECTION, OCULAR MANIFESTATIONS HIV INFECTION, PULMONARY DISEASE22 HOARSENESS HODGKIN'S DISEASE HORDOLEUM HORNER'S SYNDROME HOT FLASHES HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY INFECTION HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE HYDROCELE HYDROCEPHALUS HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE HYDRONEPHROSIS HYPERAMYLASEMIA HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA,TOTAL HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA (CONJUGATED BILIRUBIN) HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA (UNCONJUGATED BILIRUBIN) HYPERCALCEMIA HYPERCAPNIA, PERSISTENT HYPERCHLOREMIA HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA HYPERCORTISOLEMIA HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM HYPEREOSINOPHILIA HYPERGLYCEMIA HYPERHIDROSIS HYPERIMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA HYPERKALEMIA HYPERKINETIC MOVEMENT DISORDERS HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA, PRIMARY HYPERMAGNESEMIA HYPERNATREMIA HYPEROSMOLALITY, SERUM HYPEROSMOLALITY, URINE HYPERPARATHYROIDISM HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA HYPERPIGMENTATION HYPERPROLACTINEMIA HYPERPROTEINEMIA HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS HYPERSPLENISM HYPERTHYROIDISM HYPERTRICHOSIS HYPERTRIGLICERIDEMIA HYPERTROPHIC OSTEOARTHROPATHY HYPERURICEMIA HYPERVENTILATION, PERSISTENT HYPERVISCOSITY, SERUM HYPOALBUMINEMIA HYPOCALCEMIA HYPOCHLOREMIA HYPOCAPNIA HYPOGONADISM HYPOIMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA HYPOKALEMIA HYPOMAGNESEMIA HYPONATREMIA HYPOOSMOLALITY, SERUM HYPOOSMOLALITY, SERUM HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA HYPOPIGMENTATION HYPOPROTEINEMIA HYPOTENSION, POSTURAL HYPOTHERMIA HYPOTHYROIDISM IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA IMPETIGO IMPOTENCE INAPPROPRIATE SECRETION OF ANTIDIURETIC INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS INFERTILITY, FEMALE INFERTILITY, MALE INFLUENZA INSOMNIA INTESTINAL PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION INTRACRANIAL LESION IRON OVERLOAD IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME ISCHEMIC COLITIS, NONOCCLUSIVE ISCHEMIC NECROSIS OF CARTILAGE AND BONE JAUNDICE JOINT PAIN, ANTERIOR HIP, MEDIAL THIGH, KNEE JOINT PAIN, HIP, LATERAL THIGH JOINT PAIN, POSTERIOR HIPS, THIGH, BUTTOCKS JOINT SWELLING JUGULAR VENOUS DISTENTION KAPOSI SARCOMA KAWASAKI DISEASE KNEE PAIN25 KORSAKOFF'S PSYCHOSIS LABYRINTHITIS LACTOSE INTOLERANCE LAMBERT-EATON MYASTHENIC SYNDROME LARYNGEAL CANCER LARYNGITIS LARYNGOTRACHEOBRONCHITIS LEAD POISONING LEFT AXIS DEVIATION LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK LEG CRAMPS, NOCTURNAL LEG LENTH DISCEPANCIES LEG PAIN WITH EXERCISE LEG ULCERS LEUKOCORIA LIMP LIMPING, PEDIATRIC AGE LIVEDO RETICULITIS LIVER ENZYME ELEVATION LOW VOLTAGE ECG LYMPHADENOPATHY LYMPHOCYTOPENIA LYMPHOCYTOSIS MACROCYTOSIS MACULAR DEGENERATION MALARIA MALLORY-WEISS TEAR MASTOIDITIS MEASLES MECKEL'S DIVERTICULUM MEDIASTINAL MASSES OR WIDENING ON CHEST X-RAY MEIG'S SYNDROME MELANOMA MENIERE'S DISEASE MENINGIOMA MENINGITIS BACTERIAL MENINGITIS, CHRONIC MENINGITIS, VIRAL MENINGITIS, VIRAL MENOPAUSE MESENTERIC ADENITIS MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA, NONOCCLUSIVE MESENTERIC VENOUS THROMBOSIS METASTATIC NEOPLASMS MICROCEPHALY MICROCYTOSIS MICROPENIS MIOSIS MITRAL REGURGITATION MITRAL STENOSIS MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM MONOCYTOSIS MONONEUROPATHY MONONUCLEOSIS MORTON'S NEUROMA MOTION SICKNESS MULTIFOCAL ATRIAL TACHYCARDIA MULTIPLE MYELOMA MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS MUMPS MUNCHAUSEN'S SYNDROME MUSCLE WEAKNESS, LOWER MOTOR NEURON VERSUS UPPER MOTOR NEURON MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY MYASTHENIA GRAVIS MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES MYDRIASIS MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME MYELOPATHY AND MYELITIS MYOCARDITIS MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA MYOGLOBINURIA MYOPATHIES, INFECTIOUS MYOPATHIES, INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHIES, TOXIC MYOSITIS, INFLAMMATORY MYOTONIA MYXEDEMA COMA NAIL CLUBBING NAIL, HORIZONTAL WHITE LINES (BEAU'S LINES) NAIL, HORIZONTAL WHITE LINES (BEAU'S LINES) NAIL ONYCHOLYSIS NAIL PITTING NAIL SPLINTER HEMORRHAGE NAIL STRIATIONS NAIL TELENGIECTASIA NAIL WHITENING (TERRY'S NAILS) NAIL YELLOWING NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY NARCOLEPSY NAUSEA AND VOMITING NECK AND ARM PAIN NECK MASS NECK PAIN NEPHRITIC SYNDROME, ACUTE NEPHROBLASTOMA NEPHROTIC SYNDROME NEUROGENIC BLADDER NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME NEUROLOGIC DEFICIT, FOCAL NEUROLOGIC DEFICIT, MULTIFOCAL NEUROPATHIES, PAINFUL NEUTROPENIA NEUTROPHILIA NOCARDIOSIS NON-ALHOLIC FATTY LIVER NYSTAGMUS OBESITY OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER OCULAR FOREIGN BODY ONYCHOMYCOSIS OPHTHALMOPLEGIA OPTIC NEURITIS ORAL MUCOSA, ERYTHEMATOUS LESIONS ORAL MUCOSA, PIGMENTED LESIONS ORAL MUCOSA, PUNCTATE EROSIVE LESIONS ORAL MUCOSA, WHITE LESIONS ORAL VESICLES AND ULCERS ORCHITIS ORGASM DYSFUNCTION OSTEOARTHRITIS OSTEOMYELITIS OSTEOPOROSIS OTITIS EXTERNA OTITIS MEDIA OTOSCLEROSIS OVARIAN TUMORS OVARIAN MASS OVULATORY DYSFUNCTION PAGET'S DISEASE OF BONE PAGET'S DISEASE OF BREAST PAIN, MIDFOOT PAIN, PLANTAR ASPECT, HEEL PAIN, POSTERIOR HEEL PALINDROMIC RHEUMATISM PALPITATIONS PAGET'S DISEASE OF BREAST PANCREATITIS, ACUTE PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC PANCYTOPENIA PAPILLEDEMA PAPULOSQUAMOUS DISEASES PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, ENDOCRINE PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, NON-ENDOCRINE PARANOID PERSONALITY PARAPLEGIA PARESTHESIAS PARKINSON'S DISEASE PARONYCHIA PAROTID SWELLING PAROXYSMAL COLD HEMOGLOBINURIA (PCH) PEDICULOSIS PEDOPHILIA PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE PELVIC MASS PELVIC PAIN, CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN, GENITAL ORIGIN PEMPHIGUS PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE PERICARDIAL EFFUSION PERICARDITIS PERIODIC PARALYSIS, HYPERKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS, HYPOKALEMIC PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE PERITONEAL CARCINONOMATOSIS PERITONEAL EFFUSION PERITONITIS, SECONDARY PERITONITIS, SPONTANEOUS BACTERIAL PERTUSSIS PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA PHOBIAS PHOTODERMATOSES PHOTOSENSITIVITY PILONIDAL CYST PINWORMS PITYARISIS ROSEA PLACENTA PREVIA PLANTAR FASCIITIS PLEURAL EFFUSIONS PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII PNEUMONIA, RECURRENT PNEUMONIA, VIRAL PNEUMOTHORAX POLIOMYELITIS POLYARTERITIS NODOSA POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE POLYCYTHEMIA VERA POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA POLYMYOSITIS POLYNEUROPATHY POLYNEUROPATHY, DRUG-INDUCED POLYNEUROPATHY, SYMMETRIC POLYURIA POPLITEAL SWELLING PORTAL HYPERTENSION POSTCONCUSSIVE SYNDROME POSTMENOPAUSAL BLEEDING PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY PREECLAMPSIA PREMENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER PROLACTINOMA PROPTOSIS PROSTATE CANCER PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA, BENIGN PROTEINURIA PRURITUS PRURITUS ANI PRURITUS VULVAE PSEUDOGOUT PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS PSEUDOINFARCTION PSITTACOSIS PSORIASIS PSYCHOSIS PTOSIS PUBERTY, DELAYED PULMONARY CRACKLES PSORIASIS PULMONARY EMBOLISM PULMONARY HYPERTENSION, PRIMARY PULMONARY LESIONS PULMONARY NODULE, SOLITARY PULSELESS ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY PURPURA PYELONEPHRITIS QT INTERVAL PROLONGATION RABIES RAMSAY HUNT SYNDROME RECTAL PAIN RED EYE REITER'S SYNDROME RENAL ARTERY OCCLUSION, CAUSES RENAL CELL CARCINOMA RENAL FAILURE, INTRINSIC OR PARENCHYMAL CAUSES RENAL FAILURE, PRERENAL CAUSES RENAL FAILURE, POSTRENAL CAUSES RENAL TUBULAR ACIDOSIS RENAL VEIN THROMBOSIS, CAUSES RESPIRATORY FAILURE, HYPOVENTILATORY RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA RETINOPATHY, DIABETIC REYE'S SYNDROME RHEUMATIC FEVER RHINITIS, ALLERGIC RICKETS RIGHT AXIS DEVATION ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER ROSACEA ROSEOLA ROTATOR CUFF SYNDROME RUBELLA SALIVARY GLAND ENLARGEMENT SALIVARY GLAND SECRETION, DECREASED SALMONELLOSIS SARCOIDOSIS SCABIES SCARLET FEVER SCHISTOSOMIASIS SCHIZOPHRENIA SCLERODERMA SCROTAL PAIN SCROTAL SWELLING SEIZURE SEIZURES, ABSENCE SEIZURES, PARTIAL SEIZURE, PEDIATRIC SEPTICEMIA SEROTONIN SYNDROME SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME SEXUAL PRECOCITY SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, ANORECTAL REGION SHEEHAN'S SYNDROME SHIGELLOSIS SHOULDER PAIN SHOULDER PAIN BY LOCATION SIALADENITIS SIALOLITHIASIS SICK SINUS SYNDROME SILICOSIS SINUSITIS SJOGREN'S SYNDROME SLEEP APNEA SMALL BOWEL OBSTRUCTION SMALLPOX SOMATIZATION DISORDER SORE THROAT SPASTIC PARAPLEGIAS SPINAL CORD DYSFUNCTION SPINAL EPIDURAL ABSCESS SPINAL STENOSIS SPINAL TUMORS SPLENOMEGALY SPONTANEOUS MISCARRIAGE SPOROTRICHIOSIS SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA STASIS DERMATITIS STEATOHEPATITIS STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME STOMATITIS, BLISTERY LESIONS STOMATITIS, BULLOUS STOMATITIS, DARK LESIONS (BROWN, BLUE, BLACK) STOMATITIS, RAISED LESIONS STOMATITIS, RED LESIONS STOMATITIS, WHITE LESIONS STRASBISMUS STRIDOR, PEDIATRIC AGE STROKE STROKE, PEDIATRIC AGE STROKE, YOUNG ADULT, CAUSES SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE SUBCLAVIAN STEAL SYNDROME SUBDURAL HEMATOMA SUDDEN DEATH, YOUNG ATHLETE SUDDEN DEATH, PEDIATRIC AGE SWOLLEN LIMB SYNCOPE SYRINGOMILIA SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS TABES DORSALIS TAKAYASU'S ARTERITIS TALL STATURE TARDIVE DYSKINESIA TARSAL TUNNEL SYNDROME TASTE AND SMELL LOSS TELANGIECTASIA TENDINOPATHY TESTICULAR FAILURE TESTICULAR NEOPLASM TESTICULAR PAIN TESTICULAR SIZE VARIATIONS TESTICULAR TORSION TETANUS TETRALOGY OF FALLOT THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME THROMBOCYTOPENIA THROMBOCYTOSIS THROMBOPHLEBITIS, SUPERFICIAL THROMBOSIS, DEEP VEIN THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA THYROID CARCINOMA THYROID NODULE THYROIDITIS THYROID STORM TICK-RELATED INFECTIONS TINEA CORPORIS TINEA CRURIS TINEA PEDIS TINEA VERSICOLOR TINNITUS TORSADES DE POINTES TOURETTE'S SYNDROME TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXOPLASMOSIS TRACHEITIS TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK (TIA) TREMOR TRICHINOSIS TRICUSPID STENOSIS TRIGGER FINGER TROCHANTERIC BURSITIS TROPICAL SPRUE TUBERCULOSIS MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY TUBULOINTERSTITIAL KIDNEY DISEASE TUBULOINTERSTITIAL DISEASE, ACUTE TULAREMIA TURNER'S SYNDROME TYPHOID FEVER ULCERATIVE COLITIS URETHRAL DISCHARGE AND DYSURIA URINARY RETENTION, ACUTE URINARY TRACT INFECTION URINE, RED UROLITHIASIS UROPATHY, OBSTRUCTIVE URTICARIA UTERINE BLEEDING, ABNORMAL UTERINE MYOMA UVEITIS VAGINAL BLEEDING VAGINAL BLEEDING, PREGNANCY VAGINAL DISCHARGE, PREPUBERTAL GIRLS VARICOSE VEINS VASCULITIS, CLASSIFICATION VASCULITIS,DISEASES THAT MIMIC VASCULITIS VENTRICULAR FAILURE VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT VERTIGO VESICULOBULLOUS DISEASES VISION LOSS, ACUTE, PAINFUL VISION LOSS, ACUTE, PAINLESS VISION LOSS, CHRONIC, PROGRESSIVE VITILIGO VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS VOLUME DEPLETION VOLUME EXCESS VOMITING VULVAR CANCER VULVAR LESIONS VULVOVAGINITIS, BACTERIAL VULVOVAGINITIS, ESTROGEN-DEFICIENT VULVOVAGINITIS, FUNGAL VULVOVAGINITIS, PREPUBESCENT VULVOVAGINITIS, TRICHOMONAS WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA WARTS WEAKNESS, ACUTE, EMERGENT WEAKNESS, GRADUAL ONSET WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS WEIGHT GAIN WEIGHT LOSS WEST NILE VIRUS INFECTION WHEEZING WHEEZING, PEDIATRIC AGE WHIPLASH WHIPPLE'S DISEASE XEROPHTHALMIA XEROSTOMIA YELLOW FEVER ZENKER'S DIVERTICULUM
About the Author :
Fred Ferri is a Clinical Professor of Community Health at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University and author of over 30 medical books. He has been the best-selling medical author in the United States over the past 25 years and is also well known and respected internationally. He has been a visiting Professor at other medical schools and many of his books have been translated in several languages. In addition to his numerous publications, he has had a distinguished academic career at Brown University where he has received several awards for his dedication to teaching including the Brown University Excellence in Teaching award and Dean's teaching Award, and with the American College of Physicians where he was inducted as a Fellow in the ACP and has been a recipient of the Irving Addison Beck Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Ferri is a practicing physician at Ocean State Medical, a group primary care practice that he established in 1984 and still runs along with two other partners and his two sons.
Review :
"In this pocket guide that can actually fit in a pocket, Ferri (medicine Brown U. Medical School) provides a concise guide to differential diagnosis for over 900 signs, symptoms and clinical disorders. The differential diagnoses are listed both by presenting sign or symptom and by clinical disorder, with diagnostic possibilities in declining order of incidence. Although not an encyclopedic reference, and not intended to be, this guide will carry most practitioners through the day and can even serve as a quick study guide. Ferri includes references and also a handy index." -- SciTech Book News, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 2006
