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Print Price: $43.95

Format:
Paperback
200 pp.
208 mm x 137 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195375367

Publication date:
June 2009

Imprint: OUP US


Peripheral Nerve and Muscle Disease

Jeffrey A. Cohen, Justin Mowchun and Jon Grudem

Series : What Do I Do Now

This book is a case-based learning guide for neuromuscular diseases. This second volume in the What Do I Do Now? series, Peripheral Nerve and Muscle Disease recreates real clinical situations in which the attending is asked for advice as the neurological consultant. The approach to the clinical question is discussed emphasizing differential diagnosis and treatment pathways. The authors have included clinical pitfalls which they have experienced in their own practice. This is a readable book which can be picked up in spare moments.

Section I: Neuropathy
1. Small Fiber Neuropathy
2. Multifocal Motor Neuropathy
3. Diagnosis of ALS
4. ALS Ethical Issues and Management
5. Arsenic Neuropathy
6. Diagnosis of Guillain Barre Syndrome
7. Management of Guillain Barre Syndrome
8. Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
9. Idiopathic Brachial Neuritis
10. Hereditary Neuropathy
11. Critical Illness Neuropathy
12. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
13. Nutritional Neuropathies
14. Pyridoxine
15. Vasculitic Neuropathy
16. Piriformis Syndrome
Section II: Myopathy
17. Myotonic Dystrophy
18. Metabolic Myopathy
19. Inflammatory Myopathy
20. Periodic Paralysis
21. Statin Myopathy
22. Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy
23. Cramps
Section III: Neuromuscular Junction and Autonomic Neuropathy
24. Diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis
25. Diagnosis of Myasthenic Crisis
26. Diagnosis of Autonomic Neuropathy
27. Management of Autonomic Neuropathy

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