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In this unique book, Dr. Bertorini guides you through more than 100 cases that demonstrate the diagnosis and management of a wide range of common and rare neuromuscular disorders. No other reference boasts such a large array of clinical studies devoted to all areas of this broad topic! Each case stu...

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Main Author: Bertorini, Tulio E.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Butterworth-Heinemann, ©2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:ClinicalKey.
Subjects:
Neuromuscular diseases > Case studies.
Neuromuscular diseases.
Neuromuscular Diseases
Case Reports
Maladies neuromusculaires > Études de cas.
Maladies neuromusculaires.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Musculoskeletal.
MEDICAL > Orthopedics.
MEDICAL > Rheumatology.
Neuromuscular diseases
Electronic books.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Neuromuscular Anatomy and Function
  • Chapter 2 Neurological Evaluation and Ancillary Tests
  • Chapter 3 Therapy in Neuromuscular Diseases
  • Case 1 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in an Elderly Woman Likely from Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Use of a Walker
  • Case 2 A Uremic Patient with a Shunt-Related Ischemic Monomelic Neuropathy Later Diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from Beta-2 Microglobulin Accumulation
  • Case 3 A Diabetic with Peripheral Neuropathy and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Who Later Developed Dysautonomia
  • Case 4 Martin Gruber and Anastomosis and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Case 5 Traumatic Median Neuropathy at the Elbow Mimicking Anterior Interossei Syndrome
  • Case 6 Pronator Teres Syndrome
  • Case 7 Ulnar Entrapment at the Elbow
  • Case 8 Ulnar Neuropathy at the Wrist from a Ganglion Cyst
  • Case 9 Focal Myositis Causing Radial Neuropathy
  • Case 10 Musculoskeletal Neuropathy from Compression During Positioning for Back Surgery
  • Case 11 Acute Brachial Neuritis
  • Case 12 Lower Trunk Plexopathy and Horner's Syndrome from Lymphoma
  • Case 13 Radiation Plexopathy
  • Case 14 Suprascapular Neuropathy
  • Case 15 C6 Radiculopathy with Motor Deficits from Herpes Zoster
  • Case 16 C5 Radiculopathy from a Ruptured Disc
  • Case 17 C7 Radiculopathy from a Herniated Disc
  • Case 18 L4 Radiculopathy from a Disc Herniation and Peroneal Entrapment
  • Case 19 S1 Radiculopathy
  • Case 20 L5 Radiculopathy and an Accessory Peroneal Nerve
  • Case 21 L2 Radiculopathy from Tumor Invasion
  • Case 22 Demylinating Lumbosacral Radiculoneuropathy in a Diabetic
  • Case 23 Cauda Equina Syndrome from Spinal Stenosis
  • Case 24 Sciatic Neurofibroma Mimicking Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Case 25 Femoral Neuropathy from a Hematoma from Angiography
  • Case 26 Carcinomatous Lumbosacral Plexopathy
  • Case 27 Meralgia Paresthetica
  • Case 28 Lumbosacral Ependymoma Mimicking a Motor Neuron Disease
  • Case 29 Acute Facial Neuropathy
  • Case 30 Neurosarcoidosis Presenting with Bilateral Vi and Vii Nerve Palsies
  • Case 31 A Patient with Als Presenting with Head Drop
  • Case 32 Man in the Barrel Syndrome
  • Case 33 Benign Focal Amyotrophy or Monomelic Amyotrophy
  • Case 34 Post-Myelopathy Amyotrophy
  • Case 35 Tethered Cord Syndrome Causing Muscle Pseudohypertrophy from Partial Denervation
  • Case 36 Kennedy₂s Disease
  • Case 37 Machado-Joseph Disease
  • Case 38 Infantile Spinal Muscular Atrophy
  • Case 39 Guillain Barř Syndrome with Central Demyelination
  • Case 40 Acute Inflammatory Polyneuropathy in an HIV Positive Person
  • Case 41 Miller Fisher Syndrome
  • Case 42 Ciguatera Poisoning
  • Case 43 Acute Quadriplegic Polyneuropathy from Porphyria
  • Case 44 Critical Illness Myopathy
  • Case 45 Pernicious Anemia Presenting with Hand Numbness in a Patient with Cervical Spondylosis
  • Case 46 Pernicious Anemia Manifesting with Weakness and Abnormal Gait
  • Case 47 Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
  • Case 48 Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy with Asymmetric Presentation in a Patient with a Monoclonal Gammopathy
  • Case 49 Purely Motor Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
  • Case 50 Subacute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy in a Diabetic
  • Case 51 Demyelinating Neuropathy Associated with MAG Antibodies
  • Case 52 Hereditary Demyelinating Polyneuropathy with Multiple Sclerosis
  • Case 53 Inflammatory Polyneuropathy after Bariatric Surgery
  • Case 54 Diabetic Amyotrophy
  • Case 55 Diabetic Amyotrophy/Mononeuritis Multiplex in the Upper Extremities
  • Case 56 Diabetic Muscle Infarct
  • Case 57 Uremic Neuropathy
  • Case 58 (A) Demyelinating Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (B) Axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
  • Case 59 Hereditary Polyneuropathy with Liability to Pressure Palsy Presenting with Bilateral Median Neuropathy after Snow Skiing
  • Case 60 Hereditary Neuropathy with Liability to Pressure Palsy Presenting with a Footdrop
  • Case 61 Mononeuritis Multiplex from Vasculitic Neuropathy
  • Case 62 Vasculitic Neuropathy from Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Case 63 Wegener's Granulomatosis and Peripheral Neuropathy
  • Case 64 Neurolymphomatosis Presenting with Mononeuritis Multiplex
  • Case 65 Paraneoplastic Ganglioneuritis
  • Case 66 Familial Amyloid Neuropathy
  • Case 67 Amiodarone Neuropathy
  • Case 68 Myasthenia Gravis Presenting with Difficulty Swallowing
  • Case 69 Familial Myasthenia Gravis with Recurrence after Thymectomy
  • Case 70 Eaton Lambert Myasthenic Syndrome Secondary to Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung
  • Case 71 Eaton Lambert Myasthenic Syndrome in a Patient with Hypothyroidism and Later Uterine Carcinoma
  • Case 72 Slow Channel Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome
  • Case 73 Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis
  • Case 73 Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis
  • Case 74 Becker's Muscular Dystrophy Presenting with Large Muscles
  • Case 75 A Manifest Carrier of Muscular Dystrophy
  • Case 76 Distal Muscular Dystrophy from Dysferlin Deficiency
  • Case 77 Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy
  • Case 78 Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
  • Case 79 Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
  • Case 80 Central Core Disease Manifesting with Progressive Weakness in an Adult
  • Case 81 Mitochondrial Disease Manifests as Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia Mimicking Myasthenia Gravis
  • Case 82 Mitochondrial Myopathy with Prominent Neck Lipoma
  • Case 83 Rhabdomyolysis in a Patient with Myophosphorylase Deficiency
  • Case 84 Adult Onset Acid Maltase Deficiency
  • Case 85 Myoglobinuria from a Viral Infection as the First Manifestation of Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase (Cpt) Deficiency in An Adult
  • Case 86 Proximal Weakness from Beta-2 Microglobulin Accumulation in a Uremic Patient
  • Case 87 Hypothyroid Myopathy
  • Case 88 Hypoparathyroid Myopathy
  • Case 89 Dermatomyositis in a Mother and Her Son
  • Case 90 Polymyositis and Myoadenylate Deaminase Deficiency (Double Trouble?)
  • Case 91 Inclusion Body Myositis
  • Case 92 Inclusion Body Myositis in a Young HIV Positive Person
  • Case 93 Eosinophilic Fascitis
  • Case 94 Bent Spine Syndrome
  • Case 95 A Case of Stiff Person Syndrome and Myasthenia Gravis
  • Case 96 Cramp Fasciculation Syndrome from a Chronic, Predominantly Motor Neuronopathy
  • Case 97 Myotonic Congenita
  • Case 98 Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome
  • Case 99 Tetany
  • Case 100 Proximal Myotonic Myopathy
  • Case 101 Acquired Rippling Muscle Disease.