Overview

Part of the ""What Do I Do Now?"" series, Peripheral Nerve and Muscle Disease uses a case-based approach to cover common and important topics in the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders. Each chapter provides an overview of the approach to the problem in question followed by a discussion of the diagnosis, key points to remember, and selected references for further reading. In this edition, new cases include: Lambert-Eaton Syndrome, Botulism, Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy, and Small Fiber Neuropathy Associated with Fibromyalgia. Peripheral Nerve and Muscle Disease is an engaging collection of thought-provoking cases which clinicians can utilize when they encounter difficult patients on the ward or in the clinic. The volume is also a self-assessment tool that tests the reader's ability to answer the question, ""What do I do now?""

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Author:   Jeffrey A. Cohen (Chair of Neurology; Professor of Neurology, Chair of Neurology; Professor of Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) ,  Justin J. Mowchun (Assistant Professor of Neurology, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) ,  Victoria H. Lawson (Assistant Professor of Neurology, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) ,  Nathaniel M. Robbins (Instructor in Neurology, Instructor in Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780190491901

ISBN 10:   0190491906
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   27 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

Section I. Neuropathy 1. A 35-Year-Old Man with Progressive Left Hand Weakness 2. A 54-Year-Old Male with Right-Hand Weakness 3. A 50-Year-Old with Speech, Swallowing and Behavioral Difficulties 4. A 45-Year-Old Male with Toxin Exposure 5. A 48-Year-Old with Progressive Weakness and Pain 6. A 30-Year-Old Requiring Management of Progressive Weakness 7. A 61-Year-Old Male with Severe Shoulder and Cervical Pain 8. A 55-Year-Old Male with Right Foot Weakness 9. A 63-Year-Old Male with Severe Flaccid Weakness Post MVA 10. A 55-Year-Old Female with Slowly Progressive Weakness 11. A 40-Year-Old Female with Balance And Numbness After Bariatric Surgery 12. A 55-Year-Old Female with a History of Right Foot Drop and Left Hand Weakness 13. A 40-Year-Old Female with Increasing Arm Pain and Numbness 14. A 59-Year-Old Man with Progressive Difficulties with Balance and Weight Loss 15. A 68-Year-Old Male with Progressive Numbness and Gait Difficulties 16. A 28 Year-Old Male with Weakness in the Setting of Cancer 17. A 44 Year-Old Man with Bilateral Facial Droop 18. A 41 Year-old Man with Food Drop and Malaise 19. A 44 Year-old Woman with Buttock Pain 20. A 50 Year-Old With Burning Feet 21. A 56 Year-Old with Small Fiber Neuropathy and Progressive Leg Pain and Weakness Section II. Myopathy 22. A 34 Year-Old Man with Possible Myopathic Process 23. A 39 Year-Old Man with Low Back Pain and Scapular Winging 24. A 52-Year-Old Female with Weakness and Droopy Eyelids 25. A 20-Year-Old Male with Acute Lower Extremity Weakness 26. A 19-Year-Old Male with Stiffness and Weakness After Waking 27. A 68-Year-Old Female with Progressive Pain and Weakness 28. An 18-Year-Old Male with Slowly Progressive Weakness 29. A 30-Year-Old Male with Severe Cramps Section III. Neuromuscular Junction and Autonomic Neuropathy 30. A 72-Year-Old Female with Facial Weakness and Droopy Eyelids 31. An 80-Year-Old MG Patient with Worsening Weakness 32. A 44-Year-Old Male with Subacute Onset of Syncope 33. A 46-Year-Old Man with Double Vision and Proximal Leg Weakness 34. A 2- Month- Old Boy with Acute Diffuse Weakness

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Jeffrey A. Cohen, MD is the Chair and a Professor of Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Justin J. Mowchun, MD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Victoria H. Lawson, MD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Nathaniel M. Robbins is an Instructor in Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

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