Escourolle and Poirier's Manual of Basic Neuropathology

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Escourolle and Poirier's Manual of Basic Neuropathology is written by Françoise Gray and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190675012 (ISBN 10) and 9780190675011 (ISBN 13).

Escourolle and Poirier's Manual of Basic Neuropathology is a monograph on neuropathology that provides classic macroscopic and microscopic descriptions of the pathology of diseases of the nervous system complemented with the most up-to-date accounts of the pathophysiology, genetics, and molecular biology of these diseases. The book is divided into 14 chapters that cover all the major categories of neurological diseases. The chapter topics are as follows: 1, introduction to the basic reactions of the nervous system; 2, neoplasms; 3, traumatic injury; 4, vascular disease; 5, infectious disease; 6, prion disease; 7, demyelinating disease; 8, degenerative disease; 9, acquired metabolic disease; 10, hereditary metabolic disease; 11, congenital malformations and perinatal disease; 12, disease of skeletal muscle; 13, disease of peripheral nerve; and 14, disease of the pituitary gland. An Appendix gives an overview of the technical aspects of laboratory study of the nervous system, including the latest concepts in molecular diagnosis.