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Neuromuscular disease : a case-based approach /

"There are over 600 neuromuscular disorders and the variability of these syndromes can leave clinicians feeling as if they are lost in a maze as they seek to diagnose and manage patients. This book addresses this problem by using the case-history and symptom manifestation as a starting point fo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wokke, John H. J., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Cambridge medicine (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: approach to the patient
  • Part I. Motor neurone diseases. Case 1. Classical amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ; Case 2. ALS with frontotemporal dementia ; Case 3. Primary lateral sclerosis ; Case 4. Progressive muscular atrophy ; Case 5. Kennedy disease ; Case 6. Spinal muscular atrophy type III, Kugelberg-Welander disease ; Case 7. Post-polio syndrome ; Case 8. Spinal dural fistula
  • Part II. Neuropathies. Case 9. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A ; Case 10. Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy ; Case 11. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A, mitofusinopathy ; Case 12. X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease ; Case 13. Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 4 ; Case 14. Guillain-Barre; syndrome ; Case 15. Miller-Fisher syndrome ; Case 16. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ; Case 17. Multifocal motor neuropathy ; Case 18. Peripheral nerve hyperexcitability syndrome, Morvan's syndrome ; Case 19. Vasculitic neuropathy ; Case 20. Neuropathy and ataxia caused by IgM gammopathy ; Case 21. Polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein and skin changes ; Case 22. Subacute sensory paraneoplastic neuropathy and ganglionopathy ; Case 23. Neurolymphomatosis ; Case 24. Diabetic neuropathy ; Case 25. Alcohol neuropathy ; Case 26. HIV neuropathy ; Case 27. Lyme radiculoneuritis ; Case 28. Lepromatous neuropathy ; Case 29. Toxic iatrogenic neuropathy ; Case 30. Idiopathic neuralgic amyotrophy ; Case 31. Small nerve fibre neuropathy ; Case 32. Critical illness polyneuropathy ; Case 33. Chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy
  • Part III. Neuromuscular junction disorders. Case 34. Classic myasthenia gravis ; Case 35. Myasthenia gravis with autoantibodies to MuSK ; Case 36. Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome ; Case 37. Congenital myasthenic syndrome: slow channel syndrome
  • Part IV. Myopathies. Case 38. Becker muscular dystrophy ; Case 39. Caveolinopathy, including limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 1C ; Case 40. Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A, calpainopathy ; Case 41. Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I, fukutin-related protein deficiency ; Case 42. Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy ; Case 43. Facio-scapulo-humeral dystrophy ; Case 44. Miyoshi myopathy, dysferlinopathy, limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B ; Case 45. Distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles, hereditary inclusion body myopathy ; Case 46. Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy ; Case 47. A woman with a family history of muscle weakness and severe cardiac complaints, desminopathy ; Case 48. Late-onset congenital myopathy caused by a mutation in the RYR1 gene, central core disease ; Case 49. Bethlem myopathy ; Case 50. Myotonic dystrophy type 1, Curschmann-Steinert disease ; Case 51. Myotonic dystrophy type 2, proximal myotonic myopathy ; Case 52. Becker myotonia, chloride channelopathy ; Case 53. Glycogen storage disease type 2, Pompe disease ; Case 54. Glycogen storage disease type 5, McArdle disease ; Case 55. Mitochondrial disease: progressive ophthalmoplegia ; Case 56. Myositis ; Case 57. Sporadic inclusion body myositis ; Case 58. Sarcoid myopathy ; Case 59. Hypothyroid myopathy
  • Video legends
  • Index.