Full Description
The thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this highly praised book features new chapters on laboratory methods, neuroimaging and Alzheimer's Disease.
Contents
1. Introduction to neuropathology; 2. Elements of CT and MR neuroimaging; 3. Developmental and perinatal neuropathology; 4. Bacterial, fungal, and parasitic diseases of the central nervous system; 5. Viral infections and prion diseases of the central nervous system (excluding retroviral diseases); 6. Neuropathology of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; 7. Injuries to the brain and spinal cord associated with ischemia; 8. Cerebrovascular disease; 9. Central nervous system trauma; 10. Intoxications and metabolic diseases of the central nervous system; 11. Neurodegenrative diseases (excluding Alzheimer's Disease); 12. Alzheimer's Disease; 13. Diseases of CNS myelin; 14. Introduction to neurooncology; 15. Laboratory methods of brain tumor analysis; 16. CNS tumors; 17. Embryonal tumors of the CNS; 18. Pituitary tumors and related lesions; 19. Tumors of the peripheral nervous system (Including the Craniospinal Nerve Roots); 20. Inherited Tumor Syndromes involving the nervous system; 21. Pathology of non-neoplastic, regional disorders of the spinal cord; 22. Non-neoplastic diseases of the peripheral nervous system; 23. Neuromuscular diseases
