Diseases of the motor system
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Diseases of the motor system
（Handbook of clinical neurology, revised series 15 = v. 59）
Elsevier Science Publishers , Elsevier Science Pub. Co., c1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The incessant stream of new data generated by the considerable acceleration in research devoted to the motor system disorders in the last decade is decidedly reflected in this book. The ordinate angle forming the abscissa of the volume is not a narrow one, expounding on topics from peripheral to central motor disease, and on the medical side from diagnosis to treatment. New features of the book include an updated WFN classification of motor neurone disorders. Where possible, disorders have been given 6-digit identification numbers as listed in McKusick's (1990) catalogue. This volume further equals the excellence for which theHandbook of Clinical Neurology has for years been renowned, and divergence from the previous volume is a direct reflection of how new volumes in this series stay in the forefront of neurological developments, pointing out the day when treatment of these disorders will not be alleviative or palliative, but preventive.
Table of Contents
1. The World Federation of Neurology classification of spinal muscular atrophies and other disorders of motor neurons (J.M.B.V. de Jong). 2. Adult progressive muscular atrophy and hereditary spinal muscular atrophies (F.H. Norris). 3. The postpolio syndrome (D.W. Mulder). 4. Special forms of spinal muscular atrophy (G.W. Padberg). 5. Werdnig-Hoffmann disease and variations (M. Osawa and K. Shishikura). 6. Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander disease (S. Zierz and K. Zerres). 7. Spinal muscular atrophy of infantile and juvenile onset, due to metabolic derangement (J. Troost). 8. Non-progressive juvenile atrophy of the distal upper limb () (K. Hirayama). 9. Progressive bulbar paralysis of childhood (M.R. Gomez). 10. Progressive dysautonomias (O. Appenzeller). 11. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (H.R. Tyler and J. Shefner). 12. Progressive bulbar palsy in adults (G.W. Bruyn). 13. Dementia and parkinsonism in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (A.J. Hudson). 14. Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (D.B. Williams). 15. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the Mariana Islands (R.M. Garruto and R. Yanagihara). 16. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and parkinsonism-dementia in the Kii Peninsula - comparison with the same disorders in Guam and with Alzheimer's disease (H. Shiraki and Y. Yase). 17. Hereditary spastic paraparesis () (R.P.M. Bruyn and Ph. Scheltens). 18. Ferguson-Critchley syndrome (R.P.M. Bruyn and G.W. Bruyn). 19. Hereditary spastic paraplegia with retinal disease (C.G. Wells, W.T. Longstretch Jr. and C.H. Smith). 20. Hereditary secondary dystonias (E.J. Novotny). 21. Spastic paraparesis due to metabolic disorders (H.W. Moser, A. Bergin and S. Naidu). 22. Differential diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophies and other disorders of motor neurons with infantile or juvenile onset (M. de Visser, P.A. Bolhuys and P.G. Barth). 23. Differential diagnosis of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive spinal muscular atrophy and progressive bulbar palsy in adults (E.S. Louwerse, P.A.E. Sillevis Smitt and J.M.B.V de Jong). 24. Differential diagnostic work-up of spastic para()plegia (G.W. Bruyn). 25. HTLV-1-associated motor neuron disease (G.C. Roman, J.-C. Vernant and M. Osame). 26. Palliative treatment of motor neuron disease (R.A. Smith, E. Gillie and J. Licht). 27. Hemiatrophies and hemihypertrophies (G.W. Bruyn and R.P.M. Bruyn). Index.
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