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Case Studies in Neurology for the House Officer

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This booklet is about 250 pages, divided in two chapters: the first occupies the majority of the book is a total of 52 neurological cases, each starts with the history and physical exam followed by clues, usually pictures, (neuronatomical or lab or imaging), however no MRI, followed by several short questions, on the next page there are the consice extremely helpfull and shortly explaining answers. After the answers there are several Pearls and pitfalls related to the case: like when you should suspect the disease or important epidemiological information, brief clinical review. Finally few refrrences. The case are well chosen covering wide spectrum of neurology; Headache, Stroke, Meningitis, Vertigo, Ataxia, Neoplasm, Dementia, most intresting were the few, but not uncommon disease such as Botulism, Cervical artery dissection. The drawback is the booklet is many years old, so some treatments are out of date, and there is NO MRI pictures, but that absolutley does not affect to any extent the wide selction of the cases nor the well written expalntions. The second part, about 30 pages is very short 12 cases dealing with common symptome or signs in the office followed by few lines of again well written explanations. As a neurology resident, despite being familiar with those information, I found those 52 and 12 clinical cases very challenging. I beleive it will be a good source for every neurology resident, especially it is fast and easy to read.