Peripheral neuropathies in clinical practice

"Peripheral Neuropathies in Clinical Practice is a revamped and updated version of Disorders of Peripheral Nerves, published in 1992. The current edition begins with basic concepts and anatomic classifications of the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) and its disorders." "The anatomic co...

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Main Author: Herskovitz, Steven
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Scelsa, Stephen N., Schaumburg, Herbert H., 1932-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Contemporary neurology series ; 76.
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Table of Contents:
  • Basic concepts and glossary of common clinical terms
  • Anatomic classification of peripheral nervous system disorders
  • Evaluation and management of the patient with peripheral neuropathy
  • Electrodiagnostic, imaging, nerve, and skin biopsy investigations in peripheral nerve diseases
  • Case presentations illustrating the diagnostic method
  • Acute immune-mediated neuropathies
  • Chronic immune-mediated neuropathies
  • Neuropathies associated with monoclonal gammopathies and cancer
  • Infectious and granulomatous neuropathies
  • Diabetic and other endocrine neuropathies
  • Neuropathies associated with vitamin and essential mineral deficiencies and malabsorption
  • Vascular/ischemic neuropathies
  • Neuropathies associated with organ failure
  • The hereditary neuropathies
  • Hereditary metabolic/multisystem disorders with neuropathy
  • The toxic neuropathy : principles of general and peripheral neurotoxicology; pharmaceutical agents
  • The toxic neuropathies : industrial, occupational, and environmental agents
  • Focal neuropathies : nerve injuries, entrapments, and other mononeuropathies
  • Plexopathies
  • Disorders of peripheral nerve hyperexcitability.