French's Index of Differential Diagnosis

When a patient presents to a clinician, the earliest possible diagnosis of that patient's disease is of course desirable, and it is vitally important for the doctor to be able to differentiate quickly and correctly between the various diseases to which the presenting symptoms may be due. French's Index is unparalleled in providing the clinician with invaluable assistance in this regard. Arranged alphabetically (emphasised in the new edition by the addition of the sub-title 'An A-Z') and based upon presenting symptoms such as 'Abdominal pain, acute, localised' or 'Heart, enlargement of', the text takes the reader through a step-by-step approach to that presentation culminating in a description of the different diagnoses that it might represent. Where instrumental in diagnosis, full colour or black & white illustrations are included throughout. The fourteenth edition of French's Index will continue to offer a succinct and well-illustrated aide memoire that will be indispensable to the clinical undergraduate, and to trainee and established doctors in both general and hospital practice.