TY - BOOK ID - 8434510 TI - Dictionary of rheumatology AU - Rovensky, Jozef. AU - Payer, Juraj. AU - Clague, Roy B. PY - 2009 SN - 3211685847 3211792805 PB - Wien ; New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Rheumatism --Dictionaries. KW - Rheumatology --Dictionaries. KW - Rheumatology KW - Rheumatism KW - Dictionary KW - Rheumatic Diseases KW - Internal Medicine KW - Connective Tissue Diseases KW - Musculoskeletal Diseases KW - Publication Formats KW - Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases KW - Publication Characteristics KW - Diseases KW - Medicine KW - Health Occupations KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Musculoskeletal System Diseases KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Rheumatic diseases KW - Medicine. KW - Allergy. KW - Internal medicine. KW - Infectious diseases. KW - Rheumatology. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Internal Medicine. KW - Allergology. KW - Infectious Diseases. KW - Collagen diseases KW - Musculoskeletal system KW - Internal medicine KW - Connective tissues KW - Joints KW - Emerging infectious diseases. KW - Emerging infections KW - New infectious diseases KW - Re-emerging infectious diseases KW - Reemerging infectious diseases KW - Communicable diseases KW - Allergic diseases KW - Allergies KW - Hypersensitivity KW - Hypersensitivity, Immediate KW - Immediate allergy KW - Immediate hypersensitivity KW - Immunologic diseases KW - Immunoglobulin E KW - Medicine, Internal KW - Infection KW - Infectious diseases KW - Medical microbiology KW - Causes and theories of causation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8434510 AB - Rheumatic Diseases and Osteoporosis are very common diseases. Recently the prevalence of Arthritis among American citizens is documented with 20%. This dictionary provides a comprehensive list of common terms and definitions in clinical rheumatology and osteology. It contains systematical descriptions selected from diseases of the locomotor apparatus, including osteoporosis, and important laboratory findings with special reference to the immunological parameters, which are essential for a correct definition of rheumatologic disorders. Another focus is placed on general principles of the pharmacological treatment, including Biologicals and modern therapy. The book also provides information about the individual disorders from the field of mineral metabolism and metabolic osteopathy’s, and covers basic issues of rheumatic surgery as well as general entries from the fields of physical medicine and physiotherapy, including a system of functional assessment. ER -