Research Catalog

Title

Neuromuscular disorders / Anthony A. Amato, James A. Russell.

Author

Amato, Anthony A., 1960-

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

Russell, James A. (James Adams), 1951-

Description

viii, 775 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm

Subject

• Neuromuscular diseases
• Nerves, Peripheral > Diseases
• Neuromuscular Diseases > diagnosis
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Diagnostic Techniques, Neurological
• Medical History Taking

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Sect. I. Approach to Patients with Neuromuscular Disease -- Ch. 1. Approach to the Patient with Neuromuscular Disease -- Ch. 2. Testing in Neuromuscular Disease - Electrodiagnosis and Other Modalities -- Ch. 3. Muscle and Nerve Histopathology -- Sect. II. Specific Disorders -- Ch. 4. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis -- Ch. 5. Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis -- Ch. 6. Spinal Muscular Atrophies -- Ch. 7. Poliomyelitis -- Ch. 8. Neural Disorders of Skeletal Muscle Overactivity: Cramps and Fasciculations, Neuromyotonia, Tetanus, Tetany, Satayoshi, and Stiff-Person Syndrome -- Ch. 9. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease and Related Disorders -- Ch. 10. Other Hereditary Neuropathies -- Ch. 11. Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Related Disorders -- Ch. 12. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy and Related Neuropathies -- Ch. 13. Vasculitic Neuropathies -- Ch. 14. Neuropathies Associated with Systemic Disease -- Ch. 15. Neuropathies Associated with Infections -- Ch. 16. Neuropathies Related to Nutritional Deficiencies -- Ch. 17. Neuropathies Associated with Malignancy -- Ch. 18. Toxic Neuropathies -- Ch. 19. Neuropathies Associated with Endocrinopathies -- Ch. 20. Idiopathic Neuropathy -- Ch. 21. Cervical and Thoracic Radiculopathies, Brachial Plexopathies, and Mononeuropathies of the Arm -- Ch. 22. Radiculopathies, Plexopathies, and Mononeuropathies of the Lower Extremity -- Ch. 23. Disorders of Neuromuscular Transmission -- Ch. 24. Muscular Dystrophies -- Ch. 25. Congenital Myopathies -- Ch. 26. Metabolic Myopathies -- Ch. 27. Mitochondrial Myopathies -- Ch. 28. Myotonic Dystrophies -- Ch. 29. Nondystrophic Myotonias and Periodic Paralysis -- Ch. 30. Inflammatory Myopathies -- Ch. 31. Myopathies Associated with Systemic Disease -- Ch. 32. Toxic Myopathies.

ISBN

• 9780071416122 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0071416129 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007036682

OCLC

• ocn170203752
• 170203752
• SCSB-8854129

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries