- Provides comprehensive information on both muscle and nerve biopsies
- Discusses also differential diagnosis
- Includes numerous pictures and drawings, simple explanations of technical studies, and case stories
This book evaluates muscle and nerve biopsies.
It creates a more analytical view of neuromuscular diseases in the light of clinical findings. Diseases that occur mostly in muscle or nerve tissue may show common clinical findings. Addressing these two issues together will make it easier to understand the diseases. Neuromuscular diseases, normal histology, embryology, and physiopathology of muscles and nerves are discussed with a main focus on differential diagnosis.
The book also presents the most cost-effective and easiest-to-follow algorithms for the differential diagnosis of diseases.
Table of Contents- A Quick Glance at the Neuromuscular Disorders.-
- Understanding of Muscle and Nerve Tissue.-
- The Procedure of Nerve Biopsy.-
- The Procedure of Muscle Biopsy.-
- Preparation of Muscle and Nerve Biopsy.-
- Normal Muscle and Nerve: How to read a Muscle or Nerve Biopsy?.-
- Molecular Diagnostic Procedures and Genetics in Neuromuscular Disorders.-
- Radiological Procedures used in Differential Diagnosis of Neuromuscular Disorders.-
- Physical Examination, Electrophysological Procedures and Laboratory Tests used in Differential Diagnosis of Neuromuscular Disorders.-
- Peripheral Neuropathies.-
- Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction.-
- Muscular Dystrophies.-
- Congenital Myopathies.-
- Metabolic and Mitochondrial Myopathies.-
- Approach to the Differential Diagnosis of Hypotonia in Infancy.-
- Inflammatory Myopathies.-
- Toxic and Drug- Induced Myopathies.-
- Myopathies Associated with Systemic Disorders and Ageing.-
- A Quick Glance at the Therapetic Approaches of Neuromuscular Disorders.
