Thoroughly updated for its Eighth Edition, this highly praised volume of the "House Officer" series is a succinct, symptom-oriented pocket guide to diagnosis, treatment, and management of common neurological disorders. Each chapter opens with a clinical case study and proceeds to classification of symptoms, history, physical examination, laboratory tests, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, treatment, and management. This edition includes a new glossary of neurological terms, a new chapter on evidence-based neurology, a revised, more thorough chapter on localization of neurological disease, updated illustrations, andcurrent references. The author reviews the latest advances in therapeutics, particularly in movement disorders, stroke, neuroimmunology, brain tumor treatment, headache pharmacology, and epilepsy. INDICE: Localization Right Hemiplegia Left Hemiplegia Aphasia Coma Vertigo-Dizziness Hyperreflexia Hyporeflexia/Peripheral Neuropathy Spinal Cord Compression Peripheral Nerve and Root Dysfunction Muscle Weakness Tremor and Movement Disorders Ataxia Sleep Disorders Stroke Selected Stroke Syndromes Transient Ischemic Attack Headache Dementia Seizures and Epilepsy Multiple Sclerosis andRelated Disorders Neurology of Diabetes Malignancy and the Nervous System Central Nervous System Infections AIDS and the Nervous System Neurology of UremiaNeurology of Alcoholism Neurology of Other Systemic Diseases Treatment of Pain in Neurologic Disease Lumbar Puncture and Cerebrospinal Fluid Increased Intracranial Pressure Traumatic Brain Injury Neurodiagnostic Procedures Key Pointsin Neuroanatomy Differential Diagnoses in Neurology Evidence Based Medicine in Neurology Glossary of Common Neurological Terms
- ISBN: 978-0-7817-8154-1
- Editorial: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés