Malcolm Macleod, Marion Simpson, Suvankar Pal

Neurology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Neurology is a rapidly advancing core topic within the clinicalcurriculum and students and junior doctors are expected torecognise, understand and know how to investigate and manage manyneurological-related disorders and conditions.
Neurology: Clinical Cases Uncovered leads studentsthrough the clinical approach to managing neurological problems viareal-life patient cases and outcomes. Following a question-answerapproach to developing the narrative, and including self-assessmentMCQs, EMQs and SAQs, the book includes 27 fully-illustrated casescovering a wide range of neurological presentations andconditions.

Ideal for medical students with clinical attachments inneurology, and in the run up to examinations, the book will also beuseful to doctors in training in general internal medicine,medicine of the elderly, psychiatry and neurology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405162200
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 187mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781405162203
• ISBN-10: 1405162201
• Artikelnr.: 32567846

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Macleod, Reader and Head of Experimental Neuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, and Honorary Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Lead for Neurology, NHS Forth Valley, Stirling Marion Simpson, Neurology Registrar, The Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia Suvankar Pal, Neurology Registrar, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii Acknowledgements viii How to Use This Book ix List of Abbreviations x Part 1 Basics 1 Basic science 1 Approach to the patient 10 Part 2 Cases 18 Case 1 A 76
year
old man whose hand went weak 18 Case 2 A 60
year
old man with back pain and weakness 22 Case 3 A 25
year
old woman with weakness and tingling in her arms and legs 27 Case 4 A 45
year
old man with uncontrollable seizures 32 Case 5 A 24
year
old woman with headaches and abnormal optic fundi 36 Case 6 A 37
year
old man with sudden severe headache 39 Case 7 A 17
year
old girl who becomes unresponsive after a late night 46 Case 8 A 30
year
old woman found fitting on the train 51 Case 9 A 66
year
old woman with confusion and weakness 54 Case 10 An 18
year
old girl with headache fever and confusion 58 Case 11 A 30
year
old woman with double vision and fatigue 61 Case 12 A 29
year
old woman with tingling weakness of the left arm and leg 67 Case 13 A 45
year
old woman with pain in the leg 70 Case 14 A 29
year
old woman thrown from her horse 73 Case 15 A 67
year
old man who is unsteady on his feet 77 Case 16 A 49
year old man with burning in the feet and difficulty walking 81 Case 17 A 72
year
old woman with memory problems 86 Case 18 A 54
year
old woman with tingling hands 90 Case 19 A 26
year
old woman with right
sided weakness 93 Case 20 A 19
year
old woman with acute headache and tingling 97 Case 21 A 63
year
old man whose hands have got so weak he can't work 101 Case 22 A 55
year
old woman with episodes of excruciating facial pain 105 Case 23 A 38
year
old man with heaviness of the legs 108 Case 24 An 84
year
old man with confusion and unsteadiness 112 Case 25 A 45
year
old man with constant headache 115 Case 26 A 68
year
old man with a 2
week history of unsteadiness 118 Case 27 A 15
year
old girl with fidgeting movements 121 Part 3 Self
assessment 124 MCQs 124 EMQs 131 SAQs 135 Answers 140 Index of cases by diagnosis 146 Index 147