Merritt's neurology.
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, PA :
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
[2010]
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| Edition: | Twelfth edition / |
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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
- Möbius 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
- Ménière 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.