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Movement disorder emergencies: diagnosis and treatment

By Steven J. Frucht , Stanley Fahn

Book information

Publisher
Humana Press
Year
2005
ISBN
158829305X, 9781588293053, 1592599028, 9781592599028
LCC
RC376.5 .M677 2005
Open Library ID
OL21802199M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3530677 bytes)
Series
Current Clinical Neurology
Edition
1
Pages
250\250
Topic
Medicine Neurology
Library
Kingdwarf
Time added
2010-01-07 06:59:20

Description

Prominent neurologists and movement disorders experts from around the world logically and systematically review the major movement disorder emergencies, instructing the reader on how optimally to recognize and manage these problems. The authors comprehensively cover a broad range of disorders, including acute dystonic reactions, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, startle syndromes, and tic emergencies, and stress the importance of certain obvious diagnoses such as Wilson's disease, dopa-responsive dystonia, and Whipple's disease, in which delayed diagnosis in less emergent situations can lead to slowly evolving and often irreversible neurologic damage with tragic consequences. Patient vignettes at the beginning of each chapter focus the reader's attention and highlight the urgency of the problem. Since astute clinical diagnosis of many movement disorders is still largely dependent on visual pattern recognition in the clinic, an accompanying CD-ROM illustrates virtually all of the movement disorders described in the text.

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