Merritt's neurology.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rowland, Lewis P., editor.

Pedley, Timothy A., editor.

Merritt, H. Houston (Hiram Houston), 1902-1979.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nervous system--Diseases.

Nervous system.

Neurology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1194 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Twelfth edition / editors, Lewis P. Rowland, Timothy A. Pedley.

Other Title:

Neurology

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The thoroughly updated Twelfth Edition of this classic retains the organization, practicality, and readability that makes Merritt's Neurology one of the most popular texts among neurologists, primary care physicians, and residents reviewing for psychiatry or neurology boards. In 183 short chapters, the book provides the essentials clinicians need on symptoms/signs, diagnostic tests, and neurologic disorders of all etiologies. For this edition, Timothy A. Pedley, MD joins Dr. Rowland as co-editor. Coverage includes separate chapters on autism, autosomal recessive ataxias, and autosomal dominant ataxias, and new chapters on endovascular neuroradiology, parkinsonian syndromes, Lewy body dementias, frontotemporal dementia, vanishing white matter, vasculitis, normal pressure hydrocephalus, neuromyelitis optica, Kennedy disease, spinal muscular atrophy, complex regional pain syndrome, and Hashimoto encephalopathy. A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank.

Contents:

Signs and symptoms in neurologic diagnosis: approach to the patient

Delirium and confusion

Memory loss, behavioral changes and dementia

Aphasia, apraxia, and agnosia

Syncope, seizures and their mimics

Coma

Headache

Diagnosis of pain and paresthesias

Dizziness, vertigo, and hearing loss

Impaired vision

Involuntary movements

Syndromes caused by weak muscles

Gait disorders

CT and MRI

Electroencephalography and evoked potentials

Electromyography, nerve conduction studies, and and magnetic stimulation

Autonomic testing

Neurovascular imaging

Endovascular neuroradiology

Lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid examination

Muscle and nerve biopsy

Neuropsychological evaluation

DNA diagnosis

Bacterial infections

Focal infections

Viral infections and postviral syndromes

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

Fungal infections

Neurosarcoidosis

Neurosyphilis

Leptospirosis

Lyme disease

Parasitic infections

Bacterial toxins

Prion diseases

Whipple disease

Pathogenesis, classification, and epidemiology of cerebrovascular disease

Examination of the patient with cerebrovascular disease

Transient ischemic attack

Cerebral infarction

Intracerebral hemorrhage

Genetics of stroke

Other cerebrovascular syndromes

Differential diagnosis of stroke

Stroke in children

Treatment and prevention of stroke

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis

Vascular disease of the spinal cord

Vasculitis

Susac syndrome

Vascular tumors and malformations

Hydrocephalus

Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)

Brain edema and disorders of intracranial pressure

Superficial siderosis and intracerebral hypotension

Hyperosmolar syndromes

General considerations

Tumors of the skull and cranial nerves

Tumors of the meninges

Gliomas

Lymphomas

Pineal region tumors

Tumors of the pituitary gland

Congenital and childhood tumors

Metastatic tumors

Spinal tumors

Paraneoplastic syndromes

Complications of cancer chemotherapy

Head injury

Spine injury

Cranial and peripheral nerve lesions

Complex regional pain syndrome

Radiation injury

Electrical and lightning injury

Decompression sickness

Intervertebral dics and radiculopathy

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy

Thoracic outlet syndrome

Hereditary and acquired spastic paraplegia

Syringomyelia

Neonatal neurology

Floppy infant syndrome

Disorders of motor and mental development

Autism spectrum disorders

Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome

Cerebral and spinal malformations

Chromosomal diseases

Marcus Gunn

Mobius syndrome

Disorders of amino acid metabolism

Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism

Lysosomal and other storage diseases

Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism

Glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome

Disorders of DNA maintenance, transcription, and translation

Hyperammonemia

Peroxisomal diseases: adrenoleukodystrophy, zellweger syndrome, and refsum disease

Organic acidurias

Disorders of metal metabolism

Acute intermittent porphyria

Neurologic syndromes with acanthocytes

Cerebral degenerations of childhood

Diffuse sclerosis and vanishing white matter disease

Mitochondrial encephalomyopathies: diseases of mitochondrial DNA

Leber hereditary optic neuropathy

Mitochondrial diseases with mutations of nuclear DNA

Neurofibromatosis

Tuberous sclerosis complex

Encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis

Incontinentia pigmenti

Alzheimer disease

Frontotemporal dementia

Lewy body dementias

Huntington disease

Choreas

Myoclonus

Gilles de la tourette syndrome

Dystonia

Essential tremor

Parkinson disease

Parkinson-plus syndromes

Paroxysmal dyskinesias

Tradive dyskinesia and other neuroleptic-induced syndromes

Autosomal recessive ataxias

Autosomal dominant ataxias

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive muscular atrophy, and primary lateral sclerosis

Kennedy disease

Spinal muscular atrophies of childhood

Monomelic muscular atrophy

The inherited peripheral neuropathies

Acquired neuropathies

Neuropathic pain

Myasthenia gravis

Lambert-Eaton syndrome

Botulism and antibiotic-induced neuromuscular disorders

Critical illness myopathy and neuropathy

Identifying disorders of the motor unit

Progressive muscular dystrophies

Familial periodic paralysis

Congenital disorders of muslce

Myoglobinuria

Muscle cramps and stiffness

Dermatomyositis

Polymyositis, inclusion body myositis, and related myopathies

Myositis ossificans

Multiple sclerosis

Neuromyelitis optica

Marchiafava-Bignami disease

Central pontine myelinolysis

Epilepsy

Febrile seizures

Primary and secondary headaches

Transient global amnesia

Meniere syndrome

Sleep disorders

Neurogenic orthostatic hypotension, autonomic failure, and autonomic neuropathy

Familial dysautonomia

Endocrine diseases

Hematologic and related diseases

Hepatic disease

Cerebral complications of cardiac surgery

Bone disease

Renal disease

Respiratory support for neurologic diseases

Nutritional disorders: malnutrition, malabsorption, and B₁₂ and other vitamin deficiency

Hypertrophic pachymeningitis

Neurologic disease during pregnancy

Hashimoto encephalopathy

Schizophrenia

Mood disorders

Anxiety disorders

Somatoform disorders

Alcoholism

Drug dependence

Iatrogenic disease

Occupational and environmental neurotoxicology

HIV, fetal alcohol and drug effects, and the battered child

Falls in the elderly

Neurologic rehabilitation

End-of-life issues in neurology.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4698-6689-7

1-4698-7753-8

OCLC:

923526388