Iain Wilkinson, Graham Lennox (Cambridge Addenbrooke's Hospital and West Suffolk H

Essential Neurology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Suitable for medical students on neurology attachments and MRCP examination candidates, this title includes explanation of the common neurological and neurosurgical disorders.

Produktdetails

• Essentials
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 4th Edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781405118675
• ISBN-10: 1405118679
• Artikelnr.: 13617173

Autorenporträt

Dr Iain Wilkinson was, until his recent retirement, a Consultant Neurologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and Associate Lecturer in Neurology at The University of Cambridge Medical School. He has over 20 year's experience of treating neurological patients and teaching clinical medical students. He will be joined on this fourth edition by Dr Graham Lennox, a Consultant Neurologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, who has current experience of teaching neurology to medical students.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the fourth edition.
Preface to the first edition.
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
1 Clinical skills, physical signs and anatomy.
2 Stroke.
3 Brain tumour.
4 Head injury.
5 Parkinsonism, involuntary movements and ataxia.
6 Paraplegia.
7 Multiple sclerosis.
8 Cranial nerve disorders.
9 Nerve root, nerve plexus and peripheral nerve lesions.
10 Motor neurone disease, peripheral neuropathy, myasthenia gravis and
muscle disease.
11 Unconsciousness.
12 Epilepsy.
13 Headache and facial pain.
14 Dementia.
15 Infections of the nervous system.
Answers to case histories.
Index.

Rezensionen

Reviews of previous editions:
"This is an excellent introductory text for medical students whowant their neurology without frills." ( British MedicalJournal )

"A well-presented manual of practical clinical neurologyrecommended as easy and enjoyable fundamental reading."( Brain )

"This is an excellent book with a very good all round approachto an understanding of neurology at student level" ( Journal ofNeurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry )