Diseases of the motor system /

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Imprint:Amsterdam : Elsevier Science Publishers ; New York : Elsevier Science Pub. Co., c1991.
Description:xiii, 529 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language:English
Series:Handbook of clinical neurology ; rev. ser., 15 = v. 59
Handbook of clinical neurology ; v. 59.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4532420
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Other authors / contributors:Vinken, P. J.
Bruyn, G. W.
Klawans, Harold L.
Jong, J. M. B. V. de
ISBN:0444812784
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The World Federation of Neurology classification of spinal muscular atrophies and other disorders of motor neurons
  • 2. Adult progressive muscular atrophy and hereditary spinal muscular atrophies
  • 3. The postpolio syndrome
  • 4. Special forms of spinal muscular atrophy
  • 5. Werdnig-Hoffmann disease and variations
  • 6. Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander disease
  • 7. Spinal muscular atrophy of infantile and juvenile onset, due to metabolic derangement
  • 8. Non-progressive juvenile atrophy of the distal upper limb ()
  • 9. Progressive bulbar paralysis of childhood
  • 10. Progressive dysautonomias
  • 11. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • 12. Progressive bulbar palsy in adults
  • 13. Dementia and parkinsonism in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • 14. Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • 15. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the Mariana Islands
  • 16. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and parkinsonism-dementia in the Kii Peninsula
  • Comparison with the same disorders in Guam and with Alzheimer's disease
  • 17. Hereditary spastic paraparesis
  • 18. Ferguson-Critchley syndrome
  • 19. Hereditary spastic paraplegia with retinal disease
  • 20. Hereditary secondary dystonias
  • 21. Spastic paraparesis due to metabolic disorders
  • 22. Differential diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophies and other disorders of motor neurons with infantile or juvenile onset
  • 23. Differential diagnosis of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive spinal muscular atrophy and progressive bulbar palsy in adults
  • 24. Differential diagnostic work-up of spastic para()plegia
  • 25. HTLV-1-associated motor neuron disease
  • 26. Palliative treatment of motor neuron disease
  • 27. Hemiatrophies and hemihypertrophies
  • Index