Neurology: A Clinician's Approach

✍ Scribed by Andrew Tarulli

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Neurology: A Clinician's Approach teaches a symptom-oriented approach to the 20 most common problems which face neurologists in training. Emphasizing the primary importance of the patient history, the reader is instructed which questions to ask in order to elicit the chief complaint, how to ask these questions, and how to interpret the answers. The neurologic examination is presented as a flexible diagnostic tool rather than as a rigid exercise to be performed by rote and without reference to the chief complaint. Each chapter integrates evidence-based and experience-based approaches to diagnostic testing and treatment. Frequently-encountered conditions, uncommon 'zebras', and non-neurologic mimics of nervous system dysfunction are all given appropriate weight. Neurology: A Clinician's Approach is essential reading for neurologists in training, including neurology residents and medical students.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
1 - Confusion......Page 16
2 - Coma......Page 27
3 - Aphasia......Page 37
4 - Dementia......Page 42
5 - Visual loss......Page 56
6 - Diplopia......Page 64
7 - Disorders of the eyelids and pupils......Page 72
8 - Facial weakness, dysarthria, and dysphagia......Page 77
9 - Dizziness and vertigo......Page 84
10 - Proximal and generalized weakness......Page 93
11 - Focal limb weakness......Page 104
12 - Rapidly progressive weakness......Page 111
13 - Parkinsonism......Page 117
14 - Hyperkinetic movement disorders......Page 125
15 - Distal and generalized sensory symptoms......Page 134
16 - Focal pain syndromes of the extremities......Page 143
17 - Back pain, radiculopathy, and myelopathy......Page 151
18 - Gait disorders......Page 159
19 - Headache and facial pain......Page 163
20 - Seizures and epilepsy......Page 175
21 - Stroke......Page 193
22 - Multiple sclerosis......Page 212
23 - Intracranial mass lesions......Page 223
Index......Page 229