Peripheral Nerve Disorders

Pathology and Genetics

Jean-Michel Vallat, Joachim Weiss, Jean-Michel Vallat, Joachim Weiss

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781118618431
• eBook ISBN:
  9781118618417
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Neurology

Peripheral Nerve Disorders: Pathology and Genetics is a definitive, clinically-oriented guide to the pathology of peripheral nerve disorders.

These commonly seen neurological challenges have many causes and accurate diagnosis is often necessary via pathological analysis. New techniques exploiting molecular biological knowledge have opened up new vistas to understanding the pathogenesis of these disorders, and hence their effective management.

This new title takes a disease-oriented approach to understanding the pathology of these conditions. It combines classical and contemporary techniques to enable practitioners in neurology and neuropathology to better understanding of the disease processes underlying patients' presentations and to formulate appropriate management plans.

Peripheral Nerve Disorders: Pathology and Genetics is a valuable resource for neurologists, neuropathologists, pathologists, neurobiologists and geneticists.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contributor list
• Foreword
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Clinical assessment and classification of peripheral nerve diseases
• Chapter 2: Combined muscle and nerve biopsy
• Chapter 3: Cutaneous nerve biopsy
• Chapter 4: Methods for examination of peripheral nerve
• Chapter 5: Complications from nerve biopsy
• Chapter 6: Anatomy of the peripheral nerve
• Chapter 7: Basic pathology of the peripheral nervous system
• Chapter 8: Introduction to the hereditary neuropathies
• Chapter 9: Autosomal dominant demyelinating Charcot–Marie–Tooth (CMT1)a neuropathies
• Chapter 10: Autosomal dominant neuropathy of the axonal Charcot–Marie–Tooth type 2a
• Chapter 11: Autosomal recessive demyelinating or axonal Charcot–Marie–Tooth neuropathya
• Chapter 12: Dominant and recessive intermediate CMT (CMTDI and CMTRI)
• Chapter 13: X-linked neuropathy of the Charcot–Marie–Tooth typea
• Chapter 14: Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy
• Chapter 15: Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy
• Chapter 16: Familial amyloid polyneuropathy
• Chapter 17: Peripheral neuropathies in mitochondrial disorders
• Chapter 18: Giant axonal neuropathy
• Chapter 19: Neuroaxonal dystrophy
• Chapter 20: Peripheral nerve involvement in neurolipidoses
• Chapter 21: Other hereditary neuropathies
• Chapter 22: Adult polyglucosan body disease
• Chapter 23: Polyneuropathies associated with neurofibromatosis
• Chapter 24: Vasculitides
• Chapter 25: Infectious and tropical neuropathies
• Chapter 26: Sarcoid neuropathy
• Chapter 27: Guillain–Barré syndromes and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
• Chapter 28: Diabetic neuropathies
• Chapter 29: Neuropathies in metabolic diseasesother than diabetes mellitus
• Chapter 30: Toxic neuropathies
• Chapter 31: Polyneuropathy associated with a monoclonal gammopathy
• Chapter 32: Paraneoplastic peripheral neuropathies
• Chapter 33: Neuropathies in malnutrition and alcoholism
• Chapter 34: Critical illness polyneuropathy
• Chapter 35: Non-vasculitic ischemic neuropathies
• Chapter 36: Traumatic and compressive lesions of peripheral nerves
• Chapter 37: Localized hypertrophic neuropathy, intraneural perineurioma, polyneuropathy with perineurial cell hyperplasia, and minifascicular neuropathy
• Chapter 38: Neurolymphomatosis and rare focal or multifocal lesions
• Index
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