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Thoroughly updated for its Seventh Edition, this best-selling volume of the "House Officer Series" is a succinct, symptom-oriented pocket guide to the diagnosis, treatment, and management of common neurologic disorders. Each chapter opens with a clinical case study and proceeds to classification of symptoms, history, physical examination, laboratory tests, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, treatment, and management. This book includes a chapter on differential diagnoses of less common conditions and an appendix of drug tables. This edition features major revisions of chapters on localization, muscle weakness, central nervous system infections, AIDS, pain treatment, increased intracranial pressure, and traumatic brain injury.

This long-awaited update of the classic, "The Human Nervous System", stands as an impressive survey of our knowledge of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system. The book has been completely redone and brought up-to-date. An impressive and respected cast of international authors have contributed 37 chapters on topics ranging from Brain Evolution, all phases of Brain Development, to all areas of the adult brain and peripheral pathways, along with careful descriptions of the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system, brainstem and cerebellum. "The Human Nervous System, Second Edition" will again serve as the gold standard, providing a one-stop source of up-to-date information about our knowledge of the human nervous system. This second edition of the standard reference on the human nervous system is extensively and completely revised and updated from the 1990 first edition. Written by the leading researchers, many chapters have been completely rewritten, new chapters have been added. A new section on Evolution and Development provides a broader perspective, and all chapters include references and perspectives to neurological disease.

This title's practical and applicable information makes it a perfect clinical resource for the practicing neurologist. While it is not a case-based text - it focuses more on common problems and chronic problems that require long-term management - it provides guidelines and pathways through the decision-making process that prove invaluable in practice. With an expanded section on multiple sclerosis, updated and revised information in nearly every section, and decision-approach summary tables at the beginning of every chapter, the second edition promises to stay in the limelight as the definitive text for outpatient neurologists and internists.

The new Second Edition of this convenient reference covers a wide spectrum of presenting complaints and neurologic disorders encountered in daily practice. All chapters have been thoroughly revised to include the latest therapeutics. All of the contributing authors are well-established clinicians and educators. The book is organized into 35 chapters on diagnosis and 23 chapters on treatment, including a new chapter on ABCs of Neurologic Emergencies. Chapters are written in outline format, making key information easy to find. An appendix outlines the clinical signs and ancillary diagnostic studies for delirium.

The third edition of the Essential Neurology continues to live up to its title, and will provide the medical students with the essential knowledge of neurology and neurosurgery required for qualification. For this edition the author has written a new first chapter, which integrates the traditional pre-clinical and clinical phases to correspond to the new medical curriculum. A student at any stage should therfore be able to use the book. The illustrations have been improved and the text updated and slightly condensed, to make neurology as easy to understand as possible.

Costruito a partire dalla ricchissima banca dati dell'omonima piattaforma digitale statunitense (harrisonspractice.com), "Harrison Practice" si articola in una serie di monografie, dedicate alle principali branche della medicina interna; tratta centinaia di argomenti di largo interesse clinico, focalizzandosi, oltre che sulle diverse sindromi e malattie, anche sulle più rilevanti manifestazioni sintomatologiche e metodiche diagnostiche. Una sostanziale novità del testo è l'essere articolato in frasi sintetiche, organizzate efficacemente in elenchi puntati, a gerarchie successive: ne deriva uno schematismo di facile lettura e memorizzazione, che nulla peraltro sacrifica alla precisione del contenuto. I protocolli diagnostici e terapeutici, basati sulle più aggiornate evidenze scientifiche, sono redatti dagli stessi esperti che compongono il board editoriale dell'Harrison e che forniscono anche, per il lettore che voglia ulteriormente approfondire l'argomento, le indicazioni bibliografiche più aggiornate. Non ultimo pregio, in particolare per il medico ospedaliero, è l'indicazione del codice ICD-9-CM di ogni singola affezione: uno strumento in più a portata di mano, ormai necessario nella quotidiana pratica clinica. Ogni volume della collana è accompagnato da un CD-ROM che contiene, oltre all'intero volume in PDF, la bibliografia dei vari topic e altri materiali di supporto (sitografia e iconografia).

Questo volume intende rappresentare un manuale di riferimento per studenti di medicina e per giovani medici che necessitano di una guida completa, ma pratica e concisa che li introduca alla neurologia clinica. Il testo fornisce spiegazioni chiare delle più comuni patologie neurologiche e neurochirurgiche. Vengono discussi gli approcci clinici più recenti, per garantire agli studenti l'apprendimento delle tecniche di ultima generazione. La ricca iconografia, costituita da illustrazioni, disegni e grafici, favoriscono la comprensione del testo. Sono stati inseriti anche numerosi casi clinici che aiutano ad illustrare, in modo chiaro, le modalità di presentazione clinica delle principali patologie neurologiche. Le domande di autovalutazione, al termine di ogni capitolo, consentono allo studente di giudicare la propria preparazione.