Mosby's Color Atlas and Text of Neurology
2nd Edition
Published on 11. February 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-7234-3208-1 (ISBN)
Description
This textbook of neurology for junior doctors, residents and senior medical students offers a concise overview of the specialty, with coverage of major issues - such as pathology, clinical manifestations, investigations, and management. It deals with both common neurological symptoms and specific neurological disorders. This edition has updated material on therapy of migraine, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, tumours, Multiple Sclerosis, meningitis and AIDs. It also has enhanced coverage of spino-cerebellar degeneration, cerebral venous thrombosis, multi-system atrophy, cortical Lewy body disease, ADEM, new variant CJD, channelopathies and non-metastatic syndromes.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
College/higher education
Junior doctors, residents and medical students
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
385 ills.
Weight
760 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7234-3208-1 (9780723432081)
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Content
Neurological history and examination. Headache and facial pain. Loss of consciousness and coma. Cranial nerve dysfunction. Vertigo, dizziness and ataxia. Disorders of higher cortical function. Cerebrovascular disease. Parkinson's disease and other extrapyramidal disorders. Cerebral tumour an hydrocephalus. Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating disorders. Central nervous system infection. Motor neuron disease and peripheral nerve disorders. Spinal cord disorders. Myasthenia gravis and muscle disease. The neurology of cancer, systemic disease and psychiatry.