This pocket-sized Thieme flexibook offers quick, reliable clarification of a wide and often confusing array of presenting symptoms. The book provides vital diagnostic information in a convenient tabular format that leaves no stone unturned in considering the rarer possibilities, and is enormously helpful in achieving an accurate diagnosis. Handy and comprehensive, it is ideal for physicians involved in examining and admitting patients who require neurosurgical intervention.
The unique aspect of this book is that the differential diagnosis lists are prioritized by listing the most common possibilities first.
Neurological Differential Diagnosis
This unique text fills the gap between shorter texts, containing little explanatory material, and the compendia, for those advanced in the field of neurological disorders.
It is hoped that the clinician will use this volume as a workbook in which new entities are added or older classifications revised.
This text is directed to medical students and residents who will all be regularly faced with numerous patients who have neurologic symptomatology.
Throughout, an attempt has been made to preserve the allocated a neurological "long case". This is a serious reflection on the adequacy of training in "common things are common" approach which is widely neurology.
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This unique text fills the gap between shorter texts, containing little explanatory material, and the compendia, for those advanced in the field of neurological disorders.
Neurological Differential Diagnosis: An Illustrated Approach
"There is an apocryphal story of an eminent neurology professor who was asked to provide a differential diagnosis. He allegedly quipped: "I can't give you a differential diagnosis.