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9781588900456

Neurology

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    9781588900456

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    1588900452

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-03-01
  • Publisher: Thieme Medical Pub
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Summary

Pocket-sized and affordable, this classic Thieme Flexibook provides a thorough and comprehensive review of clinical neurology. The fully revised fourth edition puts new emphasis on clinical relevance, and contains updated information on stroke, epilepsy, eye movements, headache, and more!Key features:- Nearly 1,000 pages of up-to-date clinical information- More than 50% of the book has been totally revised and updated for this edition- Easy-to-use index provides quick access to content- Written by two experienced clinical neurologists and teachersOne of the best basic works to address the entire field of neurology, this practical book has become a major text and reference for neurology students and residents the world over. The book also appeals to general practitioners, neurology specialists, and even neurosurgeons needing a quick reference on an unfamiliar neurological problem.

Table of Contents

Clinical Syndromes
1(12)
Clinical Syndromes in Neurology
2(11)
Differentiation of Central and Peripheral Paresis
2(1)
Bodily Distribution of Paresis
3(2)
Monoparesis
3(1)
Hemiparesis
4(1)
Para- and Quadriparesis
4(1)
Lesions Affecting the Anterior Horn Ganglion Cells
5(1)
Lesions Affecting a Spinal Nerve Root
5(5)
Polyradiculopathy
10(1)
Polyneuropathy
10(1)
Plexus Lesions
10(1)
Lesions of a Single Peripheral Nerve
11(1)
Dysfunction of the Neuromuscular Junction
11(1)
Myopathy
11(2)
Clinical Neurology
13(914)
Diseases Mainly Affecting the Brain and its Coverings
14(375)
Characteristics of Diseases of the Brain
14(375)
Congenital and Perinatally Acquired Diseases of the Brain
14(31)
Traumatic Brain Injury
45(11)
Intracranial Hypertension and Brain Tumors
56(19)
Infectious Diseases of the Brain and Meninges
75(56)
Disturbances of Cerebral Perfusion and Nontraumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage
131(90)
The Comatose Patient
221(14)
Extrapyramidal Syndromes
235(39)
Cerebellar Syndromes
274(11)
Metabolic Disorders with Cerebral Or Other Neurologic Involvement
285(14)
Systemic Diseases Affecting the Nervous System
299(47)
Dementing Disorders and Other Neuropsychological Syndromes
346(43)
Diseases Mainly Affecting the Spinal Cord
389(60)
Characteristics of Diseases of the Spinal Cord
389(1)
Ancillary Tests in Diseases of the Spinal Cord
389(2)
Classification of Spinal Cord Syndromes
391(2)
Congenital and Perinatally Acquired Lesions of the Spinal Cord
393(2)
Spinal Cord Trauma
395(10)
Fundamentals of (Complete) Spinal Cord Transection Syndrome
395(4)
Practical Approach to Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Transection
399(3)
Acceleration Injury of the Spine (Whiplash Injury)
402(3)
Tumors and Other Masses Compressing the Spinal Cord
405(9)
General Aspects
405(1)
Types of Mass Compressing the Spinal Cord
406(8)
Infectious, Allergic, and Toxic Diseases of the Spinal Cord and Its Coverings
414(4)
Infectious Diseases of the Spinal Cord
414(2)
Myelitis
416(1)
Toxic Myelopathies
417(1)
Circulatory Disorders of the Spinal Cord
418(7)
Blood Supply of the Spinal Cord
418(1)
Spinal Cord Ischemia Due to Deficient Arterial Blood Flow
418(5)
Spinal Cord Ischemia Due to Venous Disturbances
423(2)
Degenerative and Heredode-generative Diseases Mainly Affecting the Spinal Cord
425(16)
Diseases Affecting the Anterior Horn Cells
425(7)
Spastic Spinal Paralysis
432(2)
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
434(3)
Spinocerebellar Ataxias
437(4)
Metabolic Disorders Mainly Affecting the Spinal Cord
441(2)
Vitamin B12 Deficiency and Funicular Myelosis
441(2)
Syringomyelia and Syringobulbia
443(4)
Other Diseases of the Spinal Cord
447(2)
Radiation-Induced Myelopathy
447(1)
Decompression Myelopathy
447(2)
Autonomic and Trophic Disorders
449(16)
Acute Pandysautonomia
454(1)
Familial Dysautonomia (Riley-Day Syndrome)
455(1)
Botulism
455(1)
Insensitivity to Pain
456(1)
Congenital Insensitivity to Pain
456(1)
Congenital Sensory Neuropathy with Anhidrosis
456(1)
Sensory Radicular Neuropathy
456(1)
Pain Asymbolia
456(1)
Sympathetic Syndromes
457(4)
Typical Manifestations
457(4)
Trophic Disorders
461(4)
Demyelinating Diseases
465(22)
Multiple Sclerosis
465(19)
Typical Clinical Features
466(1)
Epidemiology
467(1)
Clinical Features
467(4)
Ancillary Tests
471(3)
Prognosis
474(2)
Pathologic Anatomy
476(1)
Etiology and Pathogenesis
477(3)
Treatment
480(3)
Differential Diagnosis
483(1)
Other Demyelinating Diseases
484(3)
Concentric Sclerosis (Balo's Disease)
484(1)
Diffuse Sclerosis (Schilder's Disease)
484(1)
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
484(1)
Neuromyelitis Optica (Devic's Disease)
484(1)
Subacute Myelo-optic Neuropathy (SMON)
485(1)
Hereditary Demyelinating Diseases
485(2)
Injury to the Nervous System by Specific Physical Agents
487(6)
Electrical Injury
487(1)
Gas Embolism
488(2)
Venous Gas Embolism
488(1)
Arterial Gas Embolism
489(1)
Injury Due to Ionizing Radiation
490(1)
Radiation Injury to the Brain
490(1)
Radiation Injury to the Spinal Cord
490(1)
Radiation Injury to the Peripheral Nervous System
491(1)
Hypothermic Injury
491(2)
Epilepsy, Other Episodic Disorders of Neurologic Function, and Sleep Disorders
493(82)
Epilepsy
493(54)
History
493(1)
Etiology and Pathogenesis
494(1)
Epidemiology
495(1)
Ancillary Diagnostic Tests in Epileptology
495(6)
Classification of Epilepsy
501(3)
Individual Seizure Types
504(2)
Clinical Patterns of Epilepsy and Epileptic Syndromes
506(11)
Partial (Focal) Seizures
517(13)
Special Seizure Types and Seizure Etiologies
530(2)
Procedure after a First Seizure or Multiple Seizures
532(1)
Treatment of Epilepsy
532(14)
Prognosis
546(1)
Episodic Disturbances of Consciousness, Syncope, and Other Nonepileptic Episodes
547(13)
Syncope and Drop Attacks
550(4)
Disturbances of Consciousness of Metabolic Origin
554(1)
Drop Attacks
555(1)
Episodic Nonepileptic Motor Phenomena
556(2)
Episodic Disorders that are Partly or Wholly Psychogenic
558(2)
Neurological Findings in the Unconscious Patient and in Psychogenic Pseudo-Neurological Conditions
560(3)
Neurological Findings in the Unconscious Patient
560(1)
The Neurological Examination in Psychogenic Pseudo-Neurological Conditions
560(3)
Sleep and Disturbances of Sleep
563(12)
Sleep
563(1)
Sleep Disorders
564(1)
Hypersomnia
565(4)
Sleep Apnea Syndrome
569(6)
Polyradiculitis and Polyneuropathy
575(42)
Polyradiculitis
575(7)
Classic Acute Polyradiculitis (Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Landry-Guillain-Barre Syndrome)
576(4)
Atypical Polyradiculitis
580(2)
Polyneuropathy
582(35)
General Features
582(6)
Hereditary Polyneuropathy
588(10)
Polyneuropathy Due to Metabolic Disorders
598(6)
Polyneuropathy Due to Improper or Inadequate Nutrition
604(1)
Polyneuropathy Due to Vitamin B12 Malabsorption
604(1)
Autoimmune Polyneuropathy
605(1)
Polyneuropathy Due to Infectious Disease
606(1)
Polyneuropathy Due to Arterial Disease
606(2)
Polyneuropathy Due to Sprue and Other Malabsorptive Disorders
608(1)
Polyneuropathy Due to Exogenous Toxic Substances
609(4)
Polyneuropathy of Other Causes
613(4)
Diseases Affecting the Cranial Nerves
617(100)
Disturbances of Olfaction
623(1)
Anosmia
623(1)
True Combined Anosmia and Ageusia
624(1)
Cacosmia
624(1)
Visual Disturbances of Neurologic Origin
624(6)
Loss of Vision
624(1)
Visual Field Defects and Perceptual Disturbances
625(5)
Abnormal Findings in the Optic Disks
630(1)
Oculomotor Disturbances
630(34)
The Neuroanatomical Basis of Ocular Motility
634(2)
Preliminary Remarks on the Examination of Ocular Motility
636(3)
Ancillary Tests in Oculomotor Disturbances
639(2)
General Principles of Ocular Motility
641(11)
Some Diseases in which Oculomotor Disturbances are Prominent
652(1)
Diseases that Mimic Supranuclear Disturbances of Eye Movement
653(1)
Lesions of the Cranial Nerves Subserving Eye Movement and their Brainstem Nuclei
654(8)
Ptosis
662(1)
Treatment of Oculomotor Disorders
663(1)
Pupillary Disorders
664(6)
Anatomy and Clinical Examination of the Pupils
664(1)
Abnormal Size and Shape of the Pupils
664(1)
Abnormalities of Pupillary Reactivity
664(6)
Trigeminal Disturbances
670(3)
Facial Nerve Disturbances
673(7)
Cryptogenic Peripheral Facial Nerve Palsy
673(3)
Bilateral Facial Nerve Palsy
676(1)
Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome
677(1)
Other Causes of Peripheral Facial Nerve Palsy
677(1)
Disturbances of Taste
678(1)
Hemifacial Spasm
678(1)
Facial Myokymia
679(1)
Facial Tic
679(1)
Progressive Facial Hemiatrophy
679(1)
Disturbances of the Vestibulo-cochlear Nerve (Statoacoustic Nerve, Auditory Nerve)
680(32)
Anatomy
680(1)
Testing of Hearing
680(2)
Cochlear, Retrocochlear, or Central Hearing Loss?
682(1)
Diseases Causing Hearing Loss
683(7)
Ancillary Tests in the Diagnostic Evaluation of Hearing Loss
690(1)
Tinnitus and Other Abnormal Sounds
690(1)
Vertigo
691(11)
Diseases Causing Prominent Vertigo
702(10)
Glossopharyngeal and Vagus Nerve Dysfunction
712(1)
Accessory Nerve Palsy
713(2)
Hypoglossal Nerve Palsy
715(1)
Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies
716(1)
Cranial Polyradiculitis
716(1)
(Recurrent) Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies
716(1)
Progressive Palsies of Multiple Cranial Nerves
716(1)
Garcin Syndrome
716(1)
Rarer Causes
716(1)
Spinal Radicular Syndromes
717(24)
General Symptoms and Signs
718(10)
Intervertebral Disk Disease as a Cause of Radicular Syndromes
728(10)
Cervical Disk Herniation and Spondylosis
729(1)
Thoracic Radicular Syndromes
730(1)
Lumbar Disk Herniation
730(8)
Mass Lesions in and Adjacent to the Spinal Nerve Roots
738(1)
Other Radicular Syndromes
739(2)
Herpes Zoster
739(2)
Lesions of Individual Peripheral Nerves
741(56)
General Clinical Features
741(1)
Ancillary Tests
742(4)
Classification and Quantification of Peripheral Nerve Lesions
746(2)
Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
748(1)
Pain Syndromes due to Peripheral Nerve Lesions
748(1)
Brachial Plexus Palsies
749(18)
Traumatic Brachial Plexus Palsies
751(11)
Other Causes of Brachial Plexus Palsy
762(4)
Differential Diagnosis of Brachial Plexus Palsies
766(1)
Long Thoracic Nerve
767(30)
Axillary Nerve
767(1)
Suprascapular Nerve
768(1)
Musculocutaneous Nerve
768(1)
Radial Nerve
768(3)
Median Nerve
771(4)
Ulnar Nerve
775(5)
Lumbosacral Plexus
780(1)
Genitofemoral and Ilioinguinal Nerves
780(7)
Femoral Nerve
787(1)
Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve (Meralgia Paresthetica)
788(1)
Obturator Nerve
789(1)
Gluteal Nerves
790(1)
Sciatic Nerve
791(1)
Common Peroneal Nerve
792(3)
Tibial Nerve
795(2)
Headache and Facial Pain
797(36)
General Aspects
798(5)
History-Taking from Patients with Headache
798(1)
Classification of Headache and Facial Pain
798(4)
Examination of Patients with Headache
802(1)
Pathogenesis of (Primary) Headache
802(1)
The Major Primary Headache Syndromes
803(12)
Tension-Type Headache
803(1)
Post-Traumatic Headache
804(1)
Migraine
805(10)
Headache in Organic Vascular Disease
815(2)
Cranial Arterial Occlusion
815(1)
Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
815(1)
Arterial Hypertension
816(1)
Pheochromocytoma
816(1)
Temporal Arteritis
816(1)
Spondylogenic Headache and Cervical Migraine
817(1)
Neck-Tongue Syndrome
818(1)
Other Symptomatic Forms of Headache
818(3)
Headache Due to an Intracranial Mass
818(1)
Headache Due to Intermittent Obstruction of CSF Flow
819(1)
Syndrome of Low Cerebro-spinal Fluid Volume (Hypoliquorrhea)
819(1)
Pseudotumor Cerebri
820(1)
Headache Due to Ocular Disorders
820(1)
Headache Due to Disorders of the Ear, Nose, and Throat
820(1)
Headache Due to Systemic Disease
820(1)
Psychogenic Headache
821(1)
Drug-Induced Headache
821(1)
Facial Pain
821(4)
Neuralgias
821(4)
Other Types of Facial Pain
825(8)
Pain Syndromes of the Limbs and Trunk
833(18)
Pain in the Shoulder and Arm (Cervicobrachialgia)
835(4)
Pain Syndromes of the Trunk and Back
839(4)
Pain in the Trunk
839(1)
Back Pain
840(3)
Pelvic Pain and Pain in the Lower Limb
843(5)
Other Regional and Generalized Pain Syndromes
848(3)
Myopathies
851(74)
General Aspects
851(10)
Muscular Dystrophies
861(16)
Myotonias and Periodic Paralyses
877(11)
The Myotonias
877(5)
Heterogeneous Syndromes Involving Excessive Muscle Fiber Activity
882(2)
Periodic Paralyses
884(4)
Metabolic Myopathies
888(7)
General Aspects of Energy Metabolism in Muscle
888(1)
Clinical Presentation and Diagnostic Evaluation of the Metabolic Myopathies
889(2)
Specific Metabolic Myopathies
891(1)
Myopathies
891(2)
Myoglobinuria
893(2)
Mitochondrial Encephalomyo- pathies
895(4)
Congenital Myopathies
899(2)
Myositis
901(6)
Myopathy in Endocrine Diseases
907(1)
Muscular Manifestations of Electrolyte Disturbances
908(1)
Muscular Manifestations Due to Medications, Intoxications, and Nutritional Deficiencies
909(2)
Disorders of Neuromuscular Transmission
911(13)
Myasthenia Gravis (Myasthenia Gravis Pseudoparalytica, Erb-Goldflam Disease)
911(11)
Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome
922(1)
Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes
923(1)
Other Myasthenic Syndromes
924(1)
Common Muscle Cramps
924(1)
References
925(2)
Appendix
927(30)
Scales for the Assessment of Neurologic Disease
928(29)
Detailed Instructions for the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS)
930(8)
Simplified Scale for Evaluating the Severity of Individual Signs of Parkinson's Disease
938(1)
Epworth Sleepiness Questionnaire
939(1)
Barthel Index (of Disability)
940(1)
Modified Rankin Scale (for Stroke)
941(1)
Modified NIH Stroke Scale (adapted from Brett et al. and Lyden et al.)
942(4)
Expanded Disability Status Scale (DSS) for Multiple Sclerosis
946(1)
Major Neurogenetic Diseases
947(10)
Glossary of Common Abbreviations in Neurology
957(1)
Glossary 957(3)
Index 960

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