Textbook of Neurology

Table of contents :
Merritt’s Neurology CONTENTS……Page 2
PREFACE……Page 18
ABBREVIATIONS……Page 19
SECTION I. SYMPTOMS OF NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS CHAPTER 1. DELIRIUM AND DEMENTIA……Page 20
CHAPTER 2. APHASIA, APRAXIA, AND AGNOSIA……Page 24
CHAPTER 3. SYNCOPE AND SEIZURE……Page 27
CHAPTER 4. COMA……Page 31
CHAPTER 5. DIAGNOSIS OF PAIN AND PARESTHESIAS……Page 35
CHAPTER 6. DIZZINESS AND HEARING LOSS……Page 37
CHAPTER 7. IMPAIRED VISION……Page 41
CHAPTER 8. HEADACHE……Page 45
CHAPTER 9. INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENTS……Page 47
CHAPTER 10. SYNDROMES CAUSED BY WEAK MUSCLES……Page 49
CHAPTER 11. GAIT DISORDERS……Page 52
CHAPTER 12. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS IN NEUROLOGIC DIAGNOSIS……Page 55
SECTION II. HOW TO SELECT DIAGNOSTIC TESTS CHAPTER 13. COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING……Page 57
CHAPTER 14. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND EVOKED POTENTIALS……Page 62
CHAPTER 15. ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND NERVE CONDUCTION STUDIES IN NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE……Page 69
CHAPTER 16. NEUROVASCULAR IMAGING……Page 73
CHAPTER 17. LUMBAR PUNCTURE AND CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION……Page 79
CHAPTER 18. MUSCLE AND NERVE BIOPSY……Page 81
CHAPTER 19. NEUROPSYCHOLOGIC EVALUATION……Page 83
CHAPTER 20. DNA DIAGNOSIS……Page 86
SECTION III. INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM CHAPTER 21. BACTERIAL INFECTIONS……Page 88
CHAPTER 22. FOCAL INFECTIONS……Page 106
CHAPTER 23. VIRAL INFECTIONS……Page 110
CHAPTER 24. ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME……Page 133
CHAPTER 25. FUNGAL AND YEAST INFECTIONS……Page 142
CHAPTER 26. NEUROSARCOIDOSIS……Page 146
CHAPTER 27. SPIROCHETE INFECTIONS: NEUROSYPHILIS……Page 148
CHAPTER 28. SPIROCHETE INFECTIONS: LEPTOSPIROSIS……Page 154
CHAPTER 29. SPIROCHETE INFECTIONS: LYME DISEASE……Page 155
CHAPTER 30. PARASITIC INFECTIONS……Page 157
CHAPTER 31. BACTERIAL TOXINS……Page 166
CHAPTER 32. REYE SYNDROME……Page 169
CHAPTER 33. PRION DISEASES……Page 170
CHAPTER 34. WHIPPLE DISEASE……Page 175
SECTION IV. VASCULAR DISEASES CHAPTER 35. PATHOGENESIS, CLASSIFICATION, AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE……Page 177
CHAPTER 36. EXAMINATION OF THE PATIENT WITH CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE……Page 186
CHAPTER 37. TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK……Page 188
CHAPTER 38. CEREBRAL INFARCTION……Page 189
CHAPTER 39. CEREBRAL AND CEREBELLAR HEMORRHAGE……Page 195
CHAPTER 40. GENETICS OF STROKE……Page 196
CHAPTER 41. OTHER CEREBROVASCULAR SYNDROMES……Page 198
CHAPTER 42. DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF STROKE……Page 201
CHAPTER 43. STROKE IN CHILDREN……Page 203
CHAPTER 44. TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF STROKE……Page 209
CHAPTER 45. SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE……Page 212
CHAPTER 46. CEREBRAL VEINS AND SINUSES……Page 218
CHAPTER 47. VASCULAR DISEASE OF THE SPINAL CORD……Page 221
SECTION V. DISORDERS OF CEREBROSPINAL AND BRAIN FLUIDS CHAPTER 48. HYDROCEPHALUS……Page 224
CHAPTER 49. BRAIN EDEMA AND DISORDERS OF INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE……Page 229
CHAPTER 50. SUPERFICIAL SIDEROSIS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM……Page 235
CHAPTER 51. HYPEROSMOLAR HYPERGLYCEMIC NONKETOTIC SYNDROME……Page 236
SECTION VI. TUMORS CHAPTER 52. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS……Page 238
CHAPTER 53. TUMORS OF THE SKULL AND CRANIAL NERVES……Page 244
CHAPTER 54. TUMORS OF THE MENINGES……Page 250
CHAPTER 55. GLIOMAS……Page 254
CHAPTER 56. LYMPHOMAS……Page 266
CHAPTER 57. PINEAL REGION TUMORS……Page 271
CHAPTER 58. TUMORS OF THE PITUITARY GLAND……Page 276
CHAPTER 59. CONGENITAL AND CHILDHOOD CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMORS……Page 281
CHAPTER 60. VASCULAR TUMORS AND MALFORMATIONS……Page 291
CHAPTER 61. METASTATIC TUMORS……Page 296
CHAPTER 62. SPINAL TUMORS……Page 304
SECTION VII. TRAUMA CHAPTER 63. HEAD INJURY……Page 311
CHAPTER 64. SPINAL INJURY……Page 323
CHAPTER 65. INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS AND RADICULOPATHY……Page 329
CHAPTER 66. CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY……Page 333
CHAPTER 67. LUMBAR SPONDYLOSIS……Page 336
CHAPTER 68. PERIPHERAL AND CRANIAL NERVE LESIONS……Page 338
CHAPTER 69. THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME……Page 353
CHAPTER 70. NEUROPATHIC PAIN AND POSTTRAUMATIC PAIN SYNDROMES……Page 355
CHAPTER 71. RADIATION INJURY……Page 357
CHAPTER 72. ELECTRICAL AND LIGHTNING INJURY……Page 362
CHAPTER 73. DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS……Page 363
SECTION VIII. BIRTH INJURIES AND DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITIES CHAPTER 74. NEONATAL NEUROLOGY……Page 364
CHAPTER 75. FLOPPY INFANT SYNDROME……Page 369
CHAPTER 76. STATIC DISORDERS OF BRAIN DEVELOPMENT……Page 371
CHAPTER 77. LAURENCE-MOON-BIEDL SYNDROME……Page 378
CHAPTER 78. STRUCTURAL MALFORMATIONS……Page 379
CHAPTER 79. MARCUS GUNN AND MÖBIUS SYNDROMES……Page 387
SECTION IX. GENETIC DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CHAPTER 80. CHROMOSOMAL DISEASES……Page 389
CHAPTER 81. DISORDERS OF AMINO ACID METABOLISM……Page 392
CHAPTER 82. DISORDERS OF PURINE METABOLISM……Page 397
CHAPTER 83. LYSOSOMAL AND OTHER STORAGE DISEASES……Page 398
CHAPTER 84. DISORDERS OF CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM……Page 408
CHAPTER 85. GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER PROTEIN SYNDROME……Page 410
CHAPTER 86. HYPERAMMONEMIA……Page 412
CHAPTER 87. PEROXISOMAL DISEASES: ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY, ZELLWEGER SYNDROME, AND REFSUM DISEASE……Page 414
CHAPTER 88. ORGANIC ACIDURIAS……Page 417
CHAPTER 89. DISORDERS OF METAL METABOLISM……Page 419
CHAPTER 90. ACUTE INTERMITTENT PORPHYRIA……Page 424
CHAPTER 91. NEUROLOGICAL SYNDROMES WITH ACANTHOCYTES……Page 427
CHAPTER 92. XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM……Page 430
CHAPTER 93. CEREBRAL DEGENERATIONS OF CHILDHOOD……Page 431
CHAPTER 94. DIFFUSE SCLEROSIS……Page 435
CHAPTER 95. DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS……Page 436
SECTION X. DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA CHAPTER 96. MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHIES: DISEASES OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA……Page 440
CHAPTER 97. LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY……Page 445
CHAPTER 98. MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES WITH MUTATIONS OF NUCLEAR DNA……Page 447
CHAPTER 99. NEUROFIBROMATOSIS……Page 450
CHAPTER 100. ENCEPHALOTRIGEMINAL ANGIOMATOSIS……Page 454
CHAPTER 101. INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI……Page 456
CHAPTER 102. TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS……Page 458
SECTION XII. PREIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES CHAPTER 103. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONSx……Page 462
CHAPTER 104. HEREDITARY NEUROPATHIES……Page 464
CHAPTER 105. ACQUIRED NEUROPATHIES……Page 469
SECTION XIII. DEMENTIAS CHAPTER 106. ALZHEIMER DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIAS……Page 482
SECTION XIV. ATAXIAS CHAPTER 107. HEREDITARY ATAXIAS……Page 489
SECTION XV. MOVEMENT DISORDERS CHAPTER 108. HUNTINGTON DISEASE……Page 497
CHAPTER 109. SYDENHAM AND OTHER FORMS OF CHOREA……Page 500
CHAPTER 110. MYOCLONUS……Page 504
CHAPTER 111. GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME……Page 506
CHAPTER 112. DYSTONIA……Page 507
CHAPTER 113. ESSENTIAL TREMOR……Page 514
CHAPTER 114. PARKINSONISM……Page 515
CHAPTER 115. PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY……Page 526
CHAPTER 116. TARDIVE DYSKINESIA AND OTHER NEUROLEPTIC-INDUCED SYNDROMES……Page 528
XVI SPINAL CORD DISEASES CHAPTER 117. HEREDITARY AND ACQUIRED SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA……Page 531
CHAPTER 118. HEREDITARY AND ACQUIRED MOTOR NEURON DISEASES……Page 536
CHAPTER 119. SYRINGOMYELIA……Page 542
SECTION XVII. DISORDERS OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION CHAPTER 120. MYASTHENIA GRAVIS……Page 545
CHAPTER 121. LAMBERT-EATON SYNDROME……Page 550
CHAPTER 122. BOTULISM AND ANTIBIOTIC-INDUCED NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS……Page 551
CHAPTER 123. ACUTE QUADRIPLEGIC MYOPATHY……Page 552
SECTION XVIII. MYOPATHIES CHAPTER 124. IDENTIFYING DISORDERS OF THE MOTOR UNIT……Page 553
CHAPTER 125. PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES……Page 555
CHAPTER 126. FAMILIAL PERIODIC PARALYSIS……Page 565
CHAPTER 127. CONGENITAL DISORDERS OF MUSCLE……Page 569
CHAPTER 128. MYOGLOBINURIA……Page 572
CHAPTER 129. MUSCLE CRAMPS AND STIFFNESS……Page 574
CHAPTER 130. DERMATOMYOSITIS……Page 578
CHAPTER 131. POLYMYOSITIS, INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS, AND RELATED MYOPATHIES……Page 581
CHAPTER 132. MYOSITIS OSSIFICANS……Page 585
SECTION XIX. DEMYELINATING DISEASES CHAPTER 133. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS……Page 586
CHAPTER 134. MARCHIAFAVA-BIGNAMI DISASE……Page 599
CHAPTER 135. CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS……Page 601
SECTION XX. AUTONOMIC DISORDERS CHAPTER 136. NEUROGENIC ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION AND AUTONOMIC FAILURE……Page 603
CHAPTER 137. ACUTE AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY……Page 606
CHAPTER 138. FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA……Page 607
SECTION XXI.PAROXYSMAL DISORDERS CHAPTER 139. MIGRAINE AND OTHER HEADACHES……Page 609
CHAPTER 140. EPILEPSY……Page 614
CHAPTER 141. FEBRILE SEIZURES……Page 629
CHAPTER 142. NEONATAL SEIZURES……Page 631
CHAPTER 143. TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA……Page 633
CHAPTER 144. MENIERE SYNDROME……Page 634
CHAPTER 145. SLEEP DISORDERS……Page 636
SECTION XXII. SYSTEMIC DISEASES AND GENERAL MEDICINE CHAPTER 146. ENDOCRINE DISEASES……Page 641
CHAPTER 147. HEMATOLOGIC AND RELATED DISEASES……Page 653
CHAPTER 148. HEPATIC DISEASE……Page 662
CHAPTER 149. CEREBRAL COMPLICATIONS OF CARDIAC SURGERY……Page 665
CHAPTER 150. BONE DISEASE……Page 667
CHAPTER 151. RENAL DISEASE……Page 671
CHAPTER 152. RESPIRATORY CARE: DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT……Page 674
CHAPTER 153. PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES……Page 678
CHAPTER 154. NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS: VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCY, MALABSORPTION, AND MALNUTRITION……Page 681
CHAPTER 155. VASCULITIS SYNDROMES……Page 686
CHAPTER 156. NEUROLOGIC DISEASE DURING PREGNANCY……Page 693
SECTION XXIII. ENVIRONMENTAL NEUROLOGY CHAPTER 157. ALCOHOLISM……Page 699
CHAPTER 158. DRUG DEPENDENCE……Page 706
CHAPTER 159. IATROGENIC DISEASE……Page 709
CHAPTER 160. COMPLICATIONS OF CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY……Page 711
CHAPTER 161. OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL NEUROTOXICOLOGY……Page 714
CHAPTER 162. ABUSE OF CHILDREN……Page 721
CHAPTER 163. FALLS IN THE ELDERLY……Page 725
SECTION XXIV. REHABILITATION CHAPTER 164. NEUROLOGIC REHABILITATION……Page 727
XXV. ETHICAL AND LEGAL GUIDELINES CHAPTER 165. END-OF-LIFE ISSUES IN NEUROLOGY……Page 729