Macleod / Simpson / Pal Neurology

Clinical Cases Uncovered
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-29470-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Clinical Cases

Neurology is a rapidly advancing core topic within the clinicalcurriculum and students and junior doctors are expected torecognise, understand and know how to investigate and manage manyneurological-related disorders and conditions.
Neurology: Clinical Cases Uncovered leads studentsthrough the clinical approach to managing neurological problems viareal-life patient cases and outcomes. Following a question-answerapproach to developing the narrative, and including self-assessmentMCQs, EMQs and SAQs, the book includes 27 fully-illustrated casescovering a wide range of neurological presentations andconditions.
Ideal for medical students with clinical attachments inneurology, and in the run up to examinations, the book will also beuseful to doctors in training in general internal medicine,medicine of the elderly, psychiatry and neurology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macleod, Malcolm

Simpson, Marion

Pal, Suvankar

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
How to use this book.
List of abbreviations.
PART 1 Basics.
The biological basis of neurological disease and treatments.
Approach to patient.
PART 2 Cases.
Case 1 A retired accountant whose hand went weak.
Case 2 A 60-year-old man with back pain and weakness.
Case 3 A 25-year-old woman with weakness and tingling in herarms and legs.
Case 4 A 45-year-old man with uncontrollable seizures.
Case 5 A 37 year old man with sudden, severe headache.
Case 6 A 24-year-old woman with headaches and abnormal opticfundi.
Case 7 A 17-year-old girl who becomes unresponsive after a latenight.
Case 8 A 30- year-old woman found fitting on the train.
Case 9 A 66 year old woman with confusion and weakness.
Case 10 An 18 year old girl with headache, fever andconfusion.
Case 11 A 30-year-old woman with double vision and fatigue.
Case 12 A 29-year-old policewoman with tingling weakness of theleft arm and leg.
Case 13 A 45-year-old secretary with pain in the leg.
Case 14 A 29-year old lady thrown off her horse.
Case 15 A 67-year-old man who is unsteady on his feet.
Case 16 A 49-year old plasterer with burning in the feet anddifficulties walking.
Case 17 A 72 year old lady with memory problems.
Case 18 A cook with tingling hands.
Case 19 A 26-year-old lawyer with a weakness.
Case 20 A 19-year-old woman with acute headache andtingling.
Case 21 A 63 year old man whose hands have got so weak hecan't work.
Case 22 A 55-year-old lady with episodes of excruciating facialpain.
Case 23 A 38 year-old man with heaviness of the legs.
Case 24 An 84-year-old man with confusion and unsteadiness.
Case 25 A 45-year-old man with constant headache.
Case 26 A 68-year old man with a two week history ofunsteadiness.
Case 27 A 15 year old student with fidgeting movements.
PART 3 Self-assessment.
MCQs.
EMQs.
SAQs.
Answers.
Index of cases by diagnosis.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Malcolm Macleod, Reader and Head of ExperimentalNeuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University ofEdinburgh, and Honorary Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Leadfor Neurology, NHS Forth Valley, Stirling
Marion Simpson, Neurology Registrar, The Austin Hospital,Melbourne, Australia
Suvankar Pal, Neurology Registrar, Western GeneralHospital, Edinburgh