Guide to Diagnostic Tests,Seventh Edition

by Diana Nicoll, Chuanyi Mark Lu, Michael Pignone

The essential guide to more than 450 of the most commonly performed diagnostic tests – updated with the latest molecular, genetic, and microbiological tests

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Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Seventh Edition is a concise guide to the selection and interpretation of more than 450 of the laboratory and microbiology tests most relevant to the general practice of medicine. This on-the-spot clinical companion also includes coverage of diagnostic imaging, electrocardiology, echocardiography, and the use of tests in differential diagnosis.

Features:

• Covers areas of internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, neurology, and obstetrics and gynecology

• Over 25 new or substantially revised laboratory tests

• New and updated coverage of emerging and re-emerging pathogens and infectious agents,including the Zika and Ebola viruses

• Updated material on molecular and genetic tests, including pharmacogenetics tests

• An entire section of diagnostic algorithms

• Full literature citations with PubMed identification (PMID) numbers included for each reference

• Details costs and risks of various procedures and tests

• Full section on electrocardiography and echocardiography

If you’ve been looking for an authoritative, up-to-date, and easy-to-carry guide to the latest diagnostic testing procedures, your search ends here.

505 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 31, 1992