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.
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LOCALIZATION RIGHT HEMIPLEGIA LEFT HEMIPLEGIA APHASIA COMA VERTIGO-DIZZINESS HYPERREFLEXIA HYPOREFLEXIA/PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION PERIPHERAL NERVE AND ROOT DYSFUNCTION MUSCLE WEAKNESS TREMOR AND MOVEMENT DISORDERS ATAXIA SLEEP DISORDERS STROKE SELECTED STROKE SYNDROMES TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK HEADACHE DEMENTIA SEIZURES AND EPILEPSY MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND RELATED DISORDERS NEUROLOGY OF DIABETES MALIGNANCY AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS AIDS AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM NEUROLOGY OF UREMIA NEUROLOGY OF ALCOHOLISM NEUROLOGY OF OTHER SYSTEMIC DISEASES TREATMENT OF PAIN IN NEUROLOGIC DISEASE LUMBAR PUNCTURE AND CEREBROSPINAL FLUID INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY NEURODIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES KEY POINTS IN NEUROANATOMY DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSES IN NEUROLOGY Index
