Merritt's neurology.

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TeilnehmendeR:
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia, PA : : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,, [2010]
2010
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Twelfth edition /
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1194 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Signs and symptoms in neurologic diagnosis: approach to the patient
  • Delirium and confusion
  • Memory loss, behavioral changes and dementia
  • Aphasia, apraxia, and agnosia
  • Syncope, seizures and their mimics
  • Coma
  • Headache
  • Diagnosis of pain and paresthesias
  • Dizziness, vertigo, and hearing loss
  • Impaired vision
  • Involuntary movements
  • Syndromes caused by weak muscles
  • Gait disorders
  • CT and MRI
  • Electroencephalography and evoked potentials
  • Electromyography, nerve conduction studies, and and magnetic stimulation
  • Autonomic testing
  • Neurovascular imaging
  • Endovascular neuroradiology
  • Lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid examination
  • Muscle and nerve biopsy
  • Neuropsychological evaluation
  • DNA diagnosis
  • Bacterial infections
  • Focal infections
  • Viral infections and postviral syndromes
  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
  • Fungal infections
  • Neurosarcoidosis
  • Neurosyphilis
  • Leptospirosis
  • Lyme disease
  • Parasitic infections
  • Bacterial toxins
  • Prion diseases
  • Whipple disease
  • Pathogenesis, classification, and epidemiology of cerebrovascular disease
  • Examination of the patient with cerebrovascular disease
  • Transient ischemic attack
  • Cerebral infarction
  • Intracerebral hemorrhage
  • Genetics of stroke
  • Other cerebrovascular syndromes
  • Differential diagnosis of stroke
  • Stroke in children
  • Treatment and prevention of stroke
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage
  • Cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis
  • Vascular disease of the spinal cord
  • Vasculitis
  • Susac syndrome
  • Vascular tumors and malformations
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)
  • Brain edema and disorders of intracranial pressure
  • Superficial siderosis and intracerebral hypotension
  • Hyperosmolar syndromes
  • General considerations
  • Tumors of the skull and cranial nerves
  • Tumors of the meninges
  • Gliomas
  • Lymphomas
  • Pineal region tumors
  • Tumors of the pituitary gland
  • Congenital and childhood tumors
  • Metastatic tumors
  • Spinal tumors
  • Paraneoplastic syndromes
  • Complications of cancer chemotherapy
  • Head injury
  • Spine injury
  • Cranial and peripheral nerve lesions
  • Complex regional pain syndrome
  • Radiation injury
  • Electrical and lightning injury
  • Decompression sickness
  • Intervertebral dics and radiculopathy
  • Cervical spondylotic myelopathy
  • Thoracic outlet syndrome
  • Hereditary and acquired spastic paraplegia
  • Syringomyelia
  • Neonatal neurology
  • Floppy infant syndrome
  • Disorders of motor and mental development
  • Autism spectrum disorders
  • Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome
  • Cerebral and spinal malformations
  • Chromosomal diseases
  • Marcus Gunn
  • Mobius syndrome
  • Disorders of amino acid metabolism
  • Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism
  • Lysosomal and other storage diseases
  • Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism
  • Glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome
  • Disorders of DNA maintenance, transcription, and translation
  • Hyperammonemia
  • Peroxisomal diseases: adrenoleukodystrophy, zellweger syndrome, and refsum disease
  • Organic acidurias
  • Disorders of metal metabolism
  • Acute intermittent porphyria
  • Neurologic syndromes with acanthocytes
  • Cerebral degenerations of childhood
  • Diffuse sclerosis and vanishing white matter disease
  • Mitochondrial encephalomyopathies: diseases of mitochondrial DNA
  • Leber hereditary optic neuropathy
  • Mitochondrial diseases with mutations of nuclear DNA
  • Neurofibromatosis
  • Tuberous sclerosis complex
  • Encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis
  • Incontinentia pigmenti
  • General considerations
  • Alzheimer disease
  • Frontotemporal dementia
  • Lewy body dementias
  • Huntington disease
  • Choreas
  • Myoclonus
  • Gilles de la tourette syndrome
  • Dystonia
  • Essential tremor
  • Parkinson disease
  • Parkinson-plus syndromes
  • Paroxysmal dyskinesias
  • Tradive dyskinesia and other neuroleptic-induced syndromes
  • Autosomal recessive ataxias
  • Autosomal dominant ataxias
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive muscular atrophy, and primary lateral sclerosis
  • Kennedy disease
  • Spinal muscular atrophies of childhood
  • Monomelic muscular atrophy
  • General considerations
  • The inherited peripheral neuropathies
  • Acquired neuropathies
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Myasthenia gravis
  • Lambert-Eaton syndrome
  • Botulism and antibiotic-induced neuromuscular disorders
  • Critical illness myopathy and neuropathy
  • Identifying disorders of the motor unit
  • Progressive muscular dystrophies
  • Familial periodic paralysis
  • Congenital disorders of muslce
  • Myoglobinuria
  • Muscle cramps and stiffness
  • Dermatomyositis
  • Polymyositis, inclusion body myositis, and related myopathies
  • Myositis ossificans
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Neuromyelitis optica
  • Marchiafava-Bignami disease
  • Central pontine myelinolysis
  • Epilepsy
  • Febrile seizures
  • Primary and secondary headaches
  • Transient global amnesia
  • Meniere syndrome
  • Sleep disorders
  • Neurogenic orthostatic hypotension, autonomic failure, and autonomic neuropathy
  • Familial dysautonomia
  • Endocrine diseases
  • Hematologic and related diseases
  • Hepatic disease
  • Cerebral complications of cardiac surgery
  • Bone disease
  • Renal disease
  • Respiratory support for neurologic diseases
  • Nutritional disorders: malnutrition, malabsorption, and B₁₂ and other vitamin deficiency
  • Hypertrophic pachymeningitis
  • Neurologic disease during pregnancy
  • Hashimoto encephalopathy
  • Schizophrenia
  • Mood disorders
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Somatoform disorders
  • Alcoholism
  • Drug dependence
  • Iatrogenic disease
  • Occupational and environmental neurotoxicology
  • HIV, fetal alcohol and drug effects, and the battered child
  • Falls in the elderly
  • Neurologic rehabilitation
  • End-of-life issues in neurology.