Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery: A Clinician's Pocket GuideThis pocket-sized Thieme flexibook offers quick, reliable clarification of a wide and often confusing array of presenting symptoms. The book provides vital diagnostic information in a convenient tabular format that leaves "no stone unturned" in considering the rarer possibilities, and is enormously helpful in achieving an accurate diagnosis. Handy and comprehensive, it is ideal for physicians involved in examining and admitting patients who require neurosurgical intervention. |
Contents
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Intracranial Calcifications | 35 |
Postoperative Brain Scar Versus Residual Brain Tumor | 41 |
First Nonfebrile TonicClonic Seizure after Two Years of | 53 |
Precocious Puberty | 59 |
Common Cardiac Disorders Associated with Cerebral Infarction | 159 |
Syndrome of Inappropriate Secretion of Antidiuretic Hormone | 166 |
Differentiation of the Various Types of Cerebral Ischemic Vascular | 179 |
Low Back Pain | 193 |
Cauda Equina Mass Lesions | 210 |
Spinal Cord Compression | 215 |
Lumbar Disk Protrusion | 226 |
Radial Nerve Palsy | 239 |
Acute Hemiplegia | 65 |
Cranial Nerve Disorders | 69 |
Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies | 82 |
Bilateral Pupillary Dilatation Mydriasis | 90 |
Slowly Progressing Visual Loss | 102 |
Intracranial Tumors | 111 |
Choroid plexus Disease | 130 |
Demyelinating Disease and Brain Atrophy | 143 |
Movement Disorders | 247 |
Tremor | 260 |
Metabolic and Structural Coma | 273 |
Infections of the Central Nervous System | 285 |
Chronic Meningitis | 300 |
World Health Organization Classification | 314 |
Neurorehabilitation | 326 |
Other editions - View all
Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery: A Clinician's Pocket Guide Sotirios A. Tsementzis No preview available - 2000 |
Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery: A Clinician's Pocket Guide S. A. Tsementzis No preview available - 2000 |
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