AuthorTurner, Christopher
TitleCrash course. Neurology / Christopher Turner
ImprintEdinburgh : Mosby, [2010]
Edition Third edition (Reprinted)
Descript xvi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

CONTENT

Part I. The patient presents with -- Disorders of higher cerebral function -- Disturbances of consciousness -- Headache -- Disorders of smell and taste -- Visual impairment -- Disorders of the pupils and eye movements -- Facial sensory loss and weakness -- Deafness, tinnitus, dizziness and vertigo -- Dysarthria, dysphonia and dysphagia -- Cerebellar dysphonia and dysphagia -- Movement disorders -- Limb weakness -- Limb sensory symptoms -- Disorders of gait. -- Part II. Diseases and Disorders -- Dementia -- Epilepsy -- Headache and cranial facial pain -- Parkinson's disease, other extrapyramidal disorders, and myoclonus -- Cranial nerve lesions -- Diseases affecting the spinal cord (myelopathy) -- Motor neuron disease -- Radiculopathy and plexopathy -- Disorders of the peripheral nerves -- Disorders of the neuromuscular junction -- Disorders of skeletal muscle -- Vascular diseases of the nervous system -- Intracranial tumours -- Infections of the nervous system -- Multiple sclerosis -- Systemic disease and the nervous system -- The effects of vitamin deficiencies and toxins on the nervous system -- Hereditary conditions affecting the nervous system. -- Part III. History, examination and common investigations -- Taking a history -- The neurological examination -- How to write a clerking -- Further investigations. -- Part IV: Self-assessment -- Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) -- Short-answer questions (SAQs) -- Extended-matching questions (EMQs) -- Patient-management problems (PMPs) -- MCQ answers -- SAQ answers -- EMQ answers -- PMP answers


SUBJECT

  1. Nervous System Diseases
  2. Diagnosis
  3. Differential
  4. Nervous System Diseases -- diagnosis

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