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Case studies in neurological pain /

"Among all patients with neurological disorders, pain is probably the most common symptom experienced. Identifying, understanding and treating pain is a responsibility of health care providers in all branches of neurology. This text is about pain in neurological diseases, both 'neuropathic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sommer, C. (Claudia)
Otros Autores: Zochodne, Douglas W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge medicine (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Part I. The biology of neuropathic pain. 1. Mechanisms of neuropathic pain
  • Part II. Focal, or localized neuropathies. 2. Pain in carpal tunnel syndrome ; 3. Pain and cervical radiculopathy ; 4. Pain and diabetic lumbosacral plexopathy ; 5. Pain and meralgia paraesthetica ; 6. Pain and lyme radiculopathy (Borrelia-associated radiculitis) ; 7. Neuralgic amyotrophy ; 8. Painful radiculopathy associated with herpes zoster infection
  • Part III. Generalized neuropathies or polyneuropathies. 9. Pain and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ; 10. Pain and diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) ; 11. Painful idiopathic polyneuropathy ; 12. Pain in vasculitic neuropathy ; 13. Painful polyneuropathy associated with anti-MAG autoantibodies ; 14. Painful polyneuropathy associated with inherited amyloidosis ; 15. Small fiber neuropathy in sarcoidosis ; 16. Pain and small fiber polyneuropathy in Fabry disease
  • Part IV. Other neuromuscular and neurological disorders. 17. Pain and proximal myotonic myopathy (DM2) ; 18. Complex regional pain syndrome ; 19. Pain and polymyalgia rheumatica ; 20. Phantom pain
  • Part V. CNS disorders. 21. Pain in Parkinson's disease ; 22. Pain associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) ; 23. Pain in Brown-Sequard syndrome ; 24. Pain in syringomyelia ; 25. Central pain with thalamic infarct ; 26. Pain in multiple sclerosis
  • Part VI. Headache disorders. 27. Chronic migraine ; 28. Cluster headache ; 29. Paroxysmal hemicrania ; 30. Trigeminal neuralgia ; 31. Headache and acute cerebral ischemia
  • Part VII. Treatment. 32. Therapeutics in neuropathic pain
  • Index.