Clinical features of myasthenia gravis.

abstract：:Selecting appropriate laboratory tests in diagnosing peripheral neuropathies is important because it increases the yield of correct diagnoses and is cost effective. A large number of tests are available. This article provides a guide to selecting appropriate tests and reviews the clinical situations that suggest speci...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Griffin JW,Hsieh ST,McArthur JC,Cornblath DR

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic symptoms are a prominent and often disturbing component of the migraine syndrome in many patients. Collectively termed "aura," migraine-related neurologic symptoms include visual, sensory, language, and motor disturbance. They occur in about one quarter of migraine patients, are classically transient, and a...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Foroozan R,Cutrer FM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encephalitis is an acute infection of brain parenchyma characterized clinically by fever, headache, and an altered level of consciousness. There may also be focal or multifocal neurologic deficits, and focal or generalized seizure activity. This article discusses the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of ...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Roos KL

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There should be a collaborative evaluation of a child with apparent learning disabilities. This article describes what the neurologist can expect from the other disciplines and how the services can be coordinated, using either the multidisciplinary services of a clinic or comprehensive assessment by a private practiti...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Schimschock JR,Milford-Cooley M,Cooley N

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson disease (PD) is well recognized by its motor features of bradykinesia, tremor, rigidity, and gait and balance difficulties. However, PD is also characterized by a myriad of nonmotor symptoms, which may occur even before motor symptoms, early in the course of disease, and throughout the advancing disease. The...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Goldman JG,Guerra CM

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed class of medications in the United States. The clinician should be mindful of the many antidepressants that can produce seizures following an accidental exposure or an overdose. A broader understanding of the seizure potential of antidepressants, combined with the abili...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Judge BS,Rentmeester LL

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudotumor cerebri is a perplexing syndrome of increased intra-cranial pressure without a space-occupying lesion. The terminology for the disorder has changed over the years and the diagnostic criteria revised to reflect advances in diagnostic technology and insights into the disease process. The classification and n...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Friedman DI

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inflammatory myopathies are a heterogeneous group of disorders with recent evidence demonstrating differences in clinical features, pathologic changes, pathogenesis, and response to therapy. The inflammatory myopathies generally produce predominantly proximal, symmetric muscle weakness and wasting. Additional crit...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Kingston WJ,Moxley RT 3rd

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its clinical introduction in the early 1980s, MRI has transformed the practice of differential diagnosis and disease monitoring for disorders affecting the central nervous system, in particular multiple sclerosis and the allied inflammatory demyelinating diseases. Widespread and dynamic inflammatory processes of...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Ali EN,Buckle GJ

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chorea (Greek for "dance") refers to irregular, rapid, flowing, non-stereotyped and random involuntary movements that often possess a writhing quality, referred to as choreoathetosis. When mild, it may be difficult to differentiate from restlessness. The movements can be strikingly asymmetric, as in hemichorea, or gen...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Higgins DS Jr

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neoplastic meningitis appears to be increasing in frequency with improvements in the treatment of many cancers. It is most often recognized in patients with leukemia, breast cancer, lymphomas, and small-cell cancer of the lung, although it may be seen with virtually any malignancy. Treatment should include intrathecal...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Grossman SA,Moynihan TJ

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, the authors present a critical overview of the historical development, indications, complications, operative techniques, and results of procedures for the alleviation of the major dyskinesias. Emphasis is placed upon recent refinement of technique, particularly stereotaxis, as well as neurophysiologic ...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Zager EL

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroepidemiology is the application of the methods of epidemiology to the problems of clinical neurology. After diagnosis, the most basic characterization of a disease is its frequency. This characterization requires ascertainment of case (numerator) within their population at risk (denominator) to provide incidence,...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Kurtzke JF

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia, defined as progressive cognitive decline, is a feature of a wide variety of genetic disorders. For example, a search of "dementia" in the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim) reveals 162 entries. Therefore this article cannot be encyclopedic and will be necessarily restricted to mo...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Hedera P,Turner RS

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic approach to the patient with cancer with suspected CNS infection depends on an analysis of the patient's immune defect, the time course of development of manifestations of infection, and the type of clinical syndrome with supportive evidence for a specific diagnosis coming from laboratory and neuroradio...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Pruitt AA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinician should be alert to the possibility of cerebrovascular disease in cancer patients who develop signs of diffuse or focal cerebral dysfunction. The cause of cerebrovascular disease can usually be determined by knowing the primary tumor type, extent of metastatic disease, and type of antineoplastic treatment...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Rogers LR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomic and physiologic changes that occur during pregnancy are unique. A neurologist needs to be aware of normal pregnancy-induced physiologic changes in the cardiovascular, renal, hematologic, and autoimmune systems, and the local anatomic changes, which include alteration of body habitus and pelvic ligaments. ...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： O'Neal MA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different types of conduction defects, avenues available for functional recovery after demyelination, therapeutic and diagnostic measures, and electrophysiologic testing are covered. ...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Eisen A

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy surgery is assuming greater importance in treating patients with partial epilepsy whose seizures are uncontrolled with antiepileptic drugs. Many good candidates for surgical treatment are not presented with the option of surgery. The evaluation for epilepsy surgery is extensive and includes several stages of ...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Devinsky O,Pacia S

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides a brief overview of the psychiatric syndromes most common in the elderly patient, as well as those most frequently accompanying neurologic disease. Diagnosis, work up, and treatment of depressive, psychotic, and anxiety disorders are also reviewed. This article is directed toward the practicing n...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Menza MA,Liberatore BL

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxias are a diverse and clinically heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by degeneration and dysfunction of the cerebellum and its associated pathways. Clinical and diagnostic evaluation can be challenging because of phenotypic overlap among causes, and a stratified an...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Shakkottai VG,Fogel BL

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past 40 years have seen the evolution of acute ischemic stroke management from unproven therapies du jour, such as steroids, heparin for stroke in evolution, and hypervolemic-hemodilution, to more of a scientific basis for our decision-making process. This evolution is directly related to the advancements in imagi...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Kelley RE,Martin-Schild S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronystagmography in 1990 should identify a vestibular abnormality with which to associate the clinical symptoms. The vestibular test battery method and interpretation reveals its application in neurotologic diagnosis. ...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Brookler KH

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognizing and treating the cause of pain in the patient with cancer should be the initial approach to the management of this common symptom. Careful analysis of patients with cancer and pain has led to the elucidation of common neurologic pain syndromes unique to this disease process. Pain in patients with cancer is...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Elliott K,Foley KM

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis can be described as a disease with a poorly understood pathophysiologic mechanism and no treatment that dramatically impacts the course of the disease. Clinical trialists are faced with finding small treatment effects against a background of multiple potential treatments, a past history o...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Katz JS,Barohn RJ,Dimachkie MM,Mitsumoto H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent trial limited to arteriovenous malformations discovered not to have bled, medical management was superior to medical management plus intervention. The trial was halted after 226 randomizations and a mean follow-up of 3.3 years owing to a disparity favoring the medical arm. Eligible patients were selected a...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Mohr JP,Yaghi S

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Myasthenia gravis (MG) is the most common autoimmune neuromuscular disorder. This article highlights several cases that the practicing neurologist may encounter in the treatment of MG. Diagnostic uncertainty continues to be an issue in patients who are seronegative to the 2 most common antibodies, acetylcholine recep...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Nguyen T,Phan CL,Supsupin E Jr,Sheikh K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smartphones make mobile computing at point of care practical. Smartphones can think, sync, and link. Built-in and user-installed applications facilitate communications between neurologists and their medical colleagues and patients and augment data acquisition and processing in the core medical information domains of p...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Busis N

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oromandibular disorders are functional disorders and associated pains in the anatomic region of the temporomandibular joint. Their diagnosis and treatment are controversial because of the lack of conformity concerning these disorders among health care providers. This article provides a clear classification of these di...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Graff-Radford SB

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impairments of visual perception resulting from brain damage can have serious implications for many aspects of patients' lives, and these impairments should be targeted for intervention. Rehabilitation programs need to be individually tailored to each patient's needs; thus, characterization of a patient's visual perce...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Anderson SW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00