Neurology (House Officer Series)
Edition: 7 edition
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: February 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780781747479
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Neurology - General; Nervous System Diseases; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Nervous system; Medical / Psychiatry; Diseases; Neurology
Description: A succinct, symptom orientated 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.The book also includes a chapter on differential diagnoses of less common conditions as well as an appendix of drug tables. Also featured are major revisions of chapters on localisation, muscle weakness, central nervous system infections, AIDS, pain treatment, increased intracranial pressure, and traumatic brain injury.