Multiple Sclerosis : Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, often progressive, and potentially disabling disease of the central nervous system. Onset of disease is usually between the ages of 15 and 50, with the incidence nearly twice as high in women. While the cause of MS is still unknown, the predominant theory...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2013.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
Colección: | Oxford American neurology library.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, often progressive, and potentially disabling disease of the central nervous system. Onset of disease is usually between the ages of 15 and 50, with the incidence nearly twice as high in women. While the cause of MS is still unknown, the predominant theory is that it is an autoimmune disease, triggered by an unknown environmental factor that results in both loss of central nervous system myelin and degeneration of axons and neurons. Although there have been a number of publications addressing different aspects of MS treatment in the neurological liter. |
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Notas: | Sites for FDA Approved Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (165 pages). |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
ISBN: | 9780199343942 0199343942 9780199840786 0199840784 |