Neurology and trauma
By: [edited by] Randolph W. Evans.
Contributors: Evans, Randolph W.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 802
ISBN-13: 9780195170320
Subjects: Nervous system -- Wounds and injuries.; Central nervous system -- Wounds and injuries.; Trauma, Nervous System -- complications.; Trauma, Nervous System -- diagnosis.; Trauma, Nervous System -- therapy.; Iatrogenic Disease -- prevention & control.
Description: Offers coverage on a wide range of clinical issues. There are comprehensive sections on head trauma, spinal trauma, plexus and peripheral nerve injuries, post-traumatic pain syndromes, sports and neurologic trauma, environmental trauma, posttraumatic sequelae and medicolegal aspects, and iatrogenic trauma. Among the new chapters are neurorehabilitation of brain injury, pediatric head injury, posttraumatic clinical neuropathies, neurootologic trauma and vertigo, impairment and disability evaluation, and five others on iatrogenic trauma.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epidemiology of brain injury / Jess F. Kraus and David L. McArthur; title: The history of cerebral trauma / F. Clifford Rose; title: Computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in traumatic brain injury / Chi-Shing Zee ... [et al.]; title: The neuropathology of trauma / David I. Graham ... [et al.]; title: The postconcussion syndrome and the sequelae of mild head injury / Randolph W. Evans; title: Post-traumatic cranial neuropathies / James R. Keane and Robert W. Baloh; title: Post-traumatic epilepsy / L. James Willmore; title: Traumatic intracranial hemorrhage / Joshua M. Ammerman, S. Taylor Jarrell, and Richard S. Polin; title: Neurovascular trauma / Anil Nanda, Hakan Tuna, and Prasad Vannemreddy; title: Medical complications of head injury / Joseph Voelker and Alison M. Wilson; title: Neurobehavioral outcome of head trauma / Daniel X. Capruso and Harvey S. Levin; title: Neuropsychological testing alter traumatic brain injury / George P. Prigatano and Susan R. Borgaro; title: Cognitive rehabilitation / James F. Malec and Keith D. Cicerone; title: Spinal cord injury / David S. Baskin; title: Complications of spinal cord injury / Oksana Volshteyn and John W. McDonald; title: Low-back pain and sciatica: evaluation and treatment / James F. Howard, Jr.; title: Zygapophysial joint trauma / Nikolai Bogduk; title: Plexus injuries / Asa J. Wilbourn; title: Occupational and use-related mononeuropathies / Timothy M. Miller and Michael J. Aminoff; title: Electrodiagnostic studies in the evaluation of peripheral nerve injuries / Bashar Katirji; title: Surgery of the injured peripheral nerve and brachial plexus / Shaden Marzouk, H. Bruce Hamilton, and David G. Kline; title: Whiplash injuries / Randolph W. Evans; title: Myofascial pain syndromes / Charles E. Argoff and Anthony H. Wheeler; title: Reflex sympathetic dystrophy and causalgia / Robert J. Schwartzman and Yakov Vorobeychik; title: Epidemiology of sports injuries / Cory Toth; title: Athletic head injury / Richard S. Polin and Nidhi Gupta; title: Athletic spine injury / S. Taylor Jarrrell ... [et al.]; title: High-altitude neurology / Ralf W. Baumgartner; title: Neurological injury from undersea diving / E. Wayne Massey; title: Lightning injuries / Michael Cherington; title: Electrical injuries / Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer; title: Neurology of microgravity and space travel / Mavis D. Fujii; title: Movement disorders: post-traumatic syndromes / Christopher G. Goetz and Ilia Itin; title: Psychiatric aspects of the neurology of trauma / Harold Merskey; title: Post-traumatic infections of the central nervous system / Allan R. Tunkel and Alan R. Turtz; title: Functional symptoms and signs in neurology / Jon Stone and Michael Sharpe; title: Physical trauma, psychological stress, and multiple sclerosis / Douglas S. Goodin; title: The neurologist as expert witness / Michael I. Weintraub; title: Complications of lumbar puncture / Randolph W. Evans; title: Iatrogenic nerve injuries / Asa J. Wilbourn; title: Complications of stereotactic brain surgery / Douglas Kondziolka and L. Dade Lunsford; title: Iatrogenic complications of spine surgery / Anil Nanda, Satish Rudrappa, and Prasad Vannemreddy.