Aminoff's Electrodiagnosis in Clinical Neurology: Expert Consult - Online and Print

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Elsevier Health Sciences, Mar 29, 2012 - Medical - 896 pages

Appropriately select, implement, and interpret electrodiagnostic tests to identify a full range of central and peripheral nervous system disorders with Aminoff's Electrodiagnosis in Clinical Neurology! Covering everything from basic principles to the latest advances in electrodiagnosis, this medical reference book helps you make optimal use of this powerful but complex diagnostic modality in compliance with regulatory and professional standards, so you can diagnose patients accurately and initiate effective treatment and management strategies.

  • Deepen your understanding of the principles, scope, limitations, diagnostic importance, prognostic relevance, and complications for each technique.

  • Visually grasp the technical and practical aspects of electrodiagnostic tests with almost 800 charts, figures, and tables.

  • Rely on the knowledge, experience, and perspective of renowned expert Dr. Michael J. Aminoff and an international team of contributors comprised of a virtual "who's who" of clinical neurophysiology.
  • Keep up with developments in the field through significant updates, including new chapters on Artifacts and Normal Variants in the Electroencephalogram; Microneurography; Clinical Applications of Nerve Excitability Testing; Ultrasound of Muscle and Nerve; The Blink Reflex and Other Brainstem Reflexes; Visual Evoked Potentials,Electroretinography and Other Diagnostic Approaches to the Visual System; and Magnetic Stimulation in Clinical Practice and Research.

  • Access information on the go from your laptop or mobile device via expertconsult.com, featuring fully searchable text, and links to PubMed.

  • Meet regulatory and professional standards and apply best practices with state-of-the-art guidance (for both non-specialists and specialists) emphasizing the clinical applications of each electrodiagnostic technique.

  • Get easily actionable information and avoid mistakes with electrophysiologic findings integrated into the clinical context in which they are obtained.
 

Contents

Electroencephalography and Magnetoencephalography
35
Electromyography Nerve Conduction Studies and Related Techniques
231
Evoked Potentials and Related Techniques
475
Bladder Bowel and Sexual Dysfunction
671
Tests of Vestibular Function
697
Electrophysiologic Evaluation in Special Situations
725
Index
831
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About the author (2012)

Dr. Michael J. Aminoff, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in neurology at the University of California San Francisco, is an internationally recognized neurologist, clinical investigator, and author. His published contributions led to the award of a Doctor of Science degree by the University of London in 2000. He is one of the two editors-in-chief of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences (2003; 2014) as well as one of the series editors of the multivolume Handbook of Clinical Neurology. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Muscle & Nerve from 1998 to 2007 and has served on numerous other editorial boards. He was a director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology for eight years and served as board chair in 2011. In 2006, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine and, in 2007, the A.B. Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Neurological Education from the American Academy of Neurology. In 2019 he received the Robert S. Schwab Award for outstanding contributions to research in peripheral clinical neurophysiology from the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.

Bibliographic information

TitleAminoff's Electrodiagnosis in Clinical Neurology: Expert Consult - Online and Print
ClinicalKey 2012
AuthorMichael J. Aminoff
Edition6, illustrated
PublisherElsevier Health Sciences, 2012
ISBN1455703087, 9781455703081
Length896 pages
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Medical / Anatomy
Medical / Clinical Medicine
Medical / Diagnostic Imaging / General
Medical / Neurology
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