This pocket handbook of paediatric neurology provides practical advice on the clinical approach, and ‘at a glance’ overviews and aides-memoire, to common and rare disorders and clinical ...
MoreThis pocket handbook of paediatric neurology provides practical advice on the clinical approach, and ‘at a glance’ overviews and aides-memoire, to common and rare disorders and clinical scenarios. Precise and compact, the book includes many helpful tables (on aetiologies and differential diagnoses) and figures (e.g. innervations, neuroradiological anatomy). The book is divided into seven chapters: (1) Clinical approach, (2) Neurodiagnostic tools (both giving practical guidance on an orderly approach to how and why to perform specialist tests and how to interpret the results, along with introductions to neurophysiology and neuroradiology), (3) Signs and symptoms (offering a distinctive clinically oriented systematic approach), (4) Specific conditions, (5) ‘Real-life’ examples of consultations with other services, (6) Emergencies, and (7) A comprehensive, practically orientated Pharmacopeia. The Handbook’s contributors are trainees who have recently got to grips with the subject, and senior colleagues whose long teaching and clinical experience bring a fresh and pragmatic approach to everyday clinical situations This equips general and neurodevelopmental paediatricians with the knowledge they need to meet the neurological needs of the young people they see; provides an ideal introduction and essential reference for trainees on short-term child neurology attachments or subspecialty trainees in neurology, neurodisability, and developmental paediatrics. An international perspective includes North American emphases. The new edition has an expanded neuroimaging section and an increased emphasis on genetic aspects of neurological disease.
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