Neuromuscular disease
Subtitle: evidence and analysis in clinical neurology
By: by Michael Benatar.
Publisher: Humana Press; Humana
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
Subjects: Neuromuscular diseases; Neurology; Neuromuscular Diseases -- diagnosis; Neuromuscular Diseases -- therapy; Review Literature
Description: Considers, in detail, a broad range of the published literature relevant not only to questions of treatment, but also to issues of diagnosis and prognosis of neuromuscular disease. Through a series of questions and answers concerning specific neuromuscular disorders, each chapter critiques the best available evidence to illustrate strengths and weaknesses of the data and make the reader aware of the quality of clinical research in general. A broad range of disorders of the anterior horn cell, nerve roots, peripheral nerves, neuromuscular junction, and muscle are critically appraised and discussed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Basic principles of epidemiology and biostatistics; title: Diagnosis; title: Treatment; title: Prognosis; title: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; title: Cervical spondylosis; title: Lumbar spondylosis; title: Polyneuropathy; title: Polyneuropathy associated with monoclonal gammopathy; title: Vasculitic neuropathy; title: Guillain-Barre syndrome; title: Chronic-inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy; title: Multifocal motor neuropathy; title: Inherited neuropathies; title: Carpal tunnel syndrome; title: Ulnar neuropathy at the elbow; title: Myasthenia gravis; title: Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome; title: Inflammatory myopathy; title: Idiopathic hyper-CK-emia; title: Statin-associated myopathy; title: Metabolic myopathy; title: Critical illness neuromuscular disease; title: Myotonic dystrophy; title: Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.