Ferris Differential Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to the Differen

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.

• Authored by Fred Ferri, the respected expert responsible for best-selling titles such as Ferri's Clinical Advisor, Ferri's Fast Facts, and Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient.
• Portable and practical for fast reference on the differential diagnosis of over 900 items encountered in both in-patient and out-patient settings.
• Organized alphabetically for easy access
• Presents differential diagnoses both by sign and symptom and by disorder so you can quickly locate the information you need.
• Comprehensive but concise, and small enough to fit in your pocket.
• List diagnostic possibilities in declining order of incidence, helping you to focus on the likeliest diagnosis.

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
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