Graham Lennox, Iain Wilkinson, I. M. S. Wilkinson

Essential Neurology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A brand new edition of Essential Neurology brings the textfully up-to-date. This book is a core text for medical students andjunior doctors, who want a comprehensive yet concise practicalguide to clinical neurology.
To make the book more readable and digestible, we haveintroduced colour into the text. This text provides clearexplanations of the most common neurological and neurosurgicaldisorders. The most up-to-date clinical methods are covered toensure students are learning the newest techniques. To enhance thereaders' understanding of this subject more illustrations,line drawings and scans are incorporated into the text.

Another new addition is the inclusion of clinical cases withself-assessment questions at the end of every chapter. These helpto clearly illustrate the clinical presentations of keyneurological disorders.

Essential Neurology is ideal for medical students onneurology attachments and an excellent review text for the MRCPexamination.

Reviews of previous edition

"This is an excellent introductory text for medical students whowant their neurology without frills."
-British Medical Journal

"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 of Neurology, Neurosurgery andPsychiatry

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Produktdetails

• 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 )