Ferri's Best Test: A Practical Guide to Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging - Brossura

Ferri, Fred F., M.D.

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ISBN 10: 0323511406 ISBN 13: 9780323511407

Casa editrice: Elsevier Science Health Science, 2017

Riassunto

Practical and concise, this spiral bound, pocket-sized manual is a quick, go-to reference for up-to-date clinical material on today’s diagnostic testing and laboratory tests. Three convenient sections provide quick access to key information on clinical laboratory testing, diagnostic imaging, and diagnostic algorithms. Experienced author Dr. Fred Ferri uses a unique, easy-to-follow format to simplify complex information and help you choose the best test to supplement your clinical diagnostic skills.

• Includes both lab and imaging tests
for concise, convenient access to all diagnostic test options for more than 200 common diseases and disorders
• .
• Includes essential information on indications, advantages, disadvantages, approximate costs, normal ranges, typical abnormalities, likeliest causes, and more.

• Features a new appendix on when to use contrast agents in ordering CT and MRI scans.
• Discusses new modalities including transient elastography (Fibroscan), CT enterography and CT enteroclysis.
• Provides new comparison tables to easily evaluate the best test; new algorithms for evaluation of immunodeficiency and hematochezia; and new tables and illustrations throughout to improve your test selection.
• Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase.
This enhanced eBook experience
• allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Elsevier Science Health Science
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0323511406
• ISBN 13: 9780323511407
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura a spirale
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 456
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: LSWR Group; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; Italia