Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Disorders of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) are the cause of prominent neurological symptoms including weakness, sensory loss, pain and autonomic dysfunction associated with deficits, morbidity and mortality. These disorders may be primary hereditary or cryptogenic neurologic disorders confined to the PNS or part of the pathology of both the central nervous system and the PNS. Most PNS disorders are secondary to other system disorders and may be responsive to treatment of the primary disease. Important advances have been obtained in several areas including molecular genetics, biochemistry, immunology, morphology and physiology that have enhanced our understanding of the causes and consequences of damage to peripheral nerve. Understanding of both these groups of PNS diseases has greatly expanded over recent years and has led to important advances of treatment both to protect and to repair damages of peripheral nerve. This volume provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of examination, diagnosis and treatment of these very diverse disorders and will be of interest to both the research and clinical neuroscience and neurology communities.
Covers both hereditary and cryptogenic neurologic disorders Includes advances in the basic science of PNS from molecular genetics, biochemistry, immunology, morphology and physiology Detailed coverage of neuropathy in connective tissue disorders, infectious disorders, metabolic disorders and malignancy
Includes bibliographical references and index.
section 1. Introduction -- section 2. Structure and function -- section 3. Clinical aspects -- section 4. Plexus and compression lesions -- section 5. Inflammatory root and nerve lesions -- section 6. Neuropathy and connective tissue disorders -- section 7. Neuropathy in infectious disorders -- section 8. Neuropathy and metabolic disorders -- section 9. Neuropathy and maligancy -- section 10. Cryptogenic, traumatic and latrogenic neuropathies -- section 11. Familial neuropathies.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
TextSeries: Handbook of clinical neurology ; v. 115, 3rd series.Publisher: Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Elsevier, 2013Description: 1 online resource (1008 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type: 