Oxford American Handbook of Rheumatology

Philip Seo, Director, The Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center; Director, Johns Hopkins Rheumatology Fellowship; Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

• Part 1: The presentation of rheumatic disease ; 1 Evaluating musculoskeletal pain ; 2 Regional musculoskeletal conditions: making a working diagnosis ; 3 Patterns of disease presentation: making a working diagnosis ; 4 The spectrum of presentation of rheumatic disease ; Part 2: The clinical features and management of rheumatic diseases ; 5 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ; 6 Osteoarthritis (OA) ; 7 The crystal arthropathies ; 8 The spondyloarthropathies ; 9 Juvenile idiopathic arthiritis (JIA) ; 10 Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) ; 11 The antiphospholipid (antibody) syndrome (APS) ; 12 Sjogren's syndrome (SS) ; 13 Systemic sclerosis and related disorders ; 14 Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies- polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM) ; 15 Primary vasculitides ; 16 Metabolic bone diseases and disorders of collagen ; 17 Infection and rheumatic disease ; 18 Miscellaneous conditions ; 19 Common upper limb musculoskeletal lesions ; 20 Back pain ; 21 Complementary and alternative medicine in rheumatology ; 22 Rheumatologic emergencies ; Index

This is a great review of major rheumatology topics. It takes an easy-to-read, conversational approach with a number of tables, pictures, and flowcharts that help explain a complicated subject.