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    <title>Merck manual of patient symptoms</title>
    <subTitle>a concise, practical guide to etiology, evaluation, and treatment</subTitle>
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    <title>Manual of patient symptoms</title>
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    <title>Patient symptoms</title>
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  <titleInfo type="alternative">
    <title>Concise, practical guide to etiology, evaluation, and treatment</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Porter, Robert S.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1950-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Kaplan, Justin L.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Homeier, Barbara P.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Merck Research Laboratories</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2008</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xx, 651 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Abdominal pain, acute -- Abdominal pain, chronic -- Alopecia -- Amenorrhea -- Anosmia -- Bleeding, excessive -- Breast lumps -- Chest pain -- Constipation in adults -- Constipation in children -- Cough in adults -- Cough in children -- Crying -- Diarrhea in adults -- Diarrhea in children -- Diplopia -- Dizziness and vertigo -- Dry mouth -- Dysmenorrhea -- Dyspepsia -- Dysphagia -- Dyspnea -- Dysuria -- Earache -- Ear discharge -- Edema -- Edema during late pregnancy -- Epistaxis -- Erectile dysfunction -- Eyelid swelling -- Eye pain -- Fever, acute, in adults -- Fever, chronic (FUO) -- Fever in infants and children -- Floaters -- Gas -- Gastrointestinal bleeding -- Halitosis -- Headache -- Hearing loss -- Hearing loss: sudden deafness -- Hematospermia -- Hematuria -- Hemoptysis -- Hiccups -- Hirsutism -- Insomnia and excessive daytime sleepiness -- Itching -- Itching, anal -- Jaundice in adults -- Jaundice in neonates -- Joint pain, monarticular -- Joint pain, polyarticular -- Lump in throat -- Nasal congestion and rhinorrhea -- Nausea and vomiting in adults -- Nausea and vomiting during early pregnancy -- Nausea and vomiting in infants and children -- Neck and back pain -- Neck mass -- Nipple discharge -- Palpitations -- Pelvic pain -- Pelvic pain during early pregnancy -- Polyuria -- Priapism -- Red eye -- Scrotal pain -- Sore throat -- Stomatitis -- Stridor -- Syncope -- Tearing -- Tinnitus -- Toothache -- Tremor -- Urinary frequency -- Urinary incontinence in adults -- Urinary incontinence in children -- Urticaria -- Vaginal bleeding -- Vaginal bleeding during early pregnancy -- Vaginal bleeding during late pregnancy -- Vaginal itching and discharge -- Vision, blurred -- Vision loss, acute -- Weakness, generalized -- Wheezing.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Robert S. Porter, editor ; Justin L. Kaplan, senior assistant editor ; Barbara P. Homeier, assistant editor.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
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    <topic>Symptoms</topic>
    <topic>Handbooks, manuals, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diseases</topic>
    <topic>Causes and theories of causation</topic>
    <topic>Handbooks, manuals, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diagnosis</topic>
    <topic>Handbooks, manuals, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Therapeutics</topic>
    <topic>Handbooks, manuals, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Signs and Symptoms</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
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    <topic>etiology</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Diagnosis</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
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  <classification authority="lcc">RC69 .M47 2008</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">616.047 MER</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780911910117</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0911910115</identifier>
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