Leg Pain
Leg Pain
Author by:
Magruder C. Donaldson, MD
This small volume is devoted to one of the commonest patient complaints encountered by practitioners of adult medicine, and one which frequently presents the initial examining physician with a diagnostic conundrum. Few primary care physicians, emergency room physicians, or for that matter, medical or surgical subspecialists are thoroughly familiar with the neurologic, orthopedic, immunologic, and vascular causes of leg pain. Moreover, help from the medical literature requires access to multiple texts from diverse medical and surgical specialties. Leg Pain should go a long way towards solving this dilemma since it brings together, in a compact and easily transportable volume, expertise from the fields of vascular surgery,neurology, orthopedics, and rheumatology, to offer insights into the clinical signs and symptoms associated with leg pain of diverse origins. As a practical point, many of the authors of the eight chapters in the volume have emphasized distinguishing features of the various types of leg pain, which can be determined by a simple history and physical examination. Most chapters also include data in tabular form, which can greatly aid in arriving at a correct diagnosis. This compact volume I believe will be particularly useful for medical students, medical and surgical house officers, primary care physicians and emergency room physicians. It should make the next encounter with a patient complaining of leg pain a good deal less perplexing.
Content:
1 Overview, Magruder C. Donaldson, MD
2 Pathophysiology of leg pain, Srdjan S. Nedeljkovi´c, MD
3 The initial encounter, Magruder C. Donaldson, MD
4 Mechanical leg pain, Tamara L. Martin, MD and Scott D. Martin, MD
5 Inflammatory leg pain, Sang Cheol Bae, MD and Matthew H. Liang, MD
6 Vascular leg pain, Magruder C. Donaldson, MD
7 Neuropathic leg pain, David C. Preston, MD
8 Other leg pain, Magruder C. Donaldson, MD
Appendix: Normal lower extremity anatomy
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