Stroke: A Clinical Approach

A revised and updated manual that describes a practical approach to the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of the stroke patient, for general practitioners, internists, and surgeons, as well as students and house officers in training. Part I, on general principles, adds an introductory chapter that emphasizes the importance of stroke, and places the present knowledge and approach into historical perspective. Part II, which covers the various stroke mechanisms, syndromes, and problems, adds new chapters on stroke in children and young adults, spinal-cord strokes, and strokes and cerebrovascular disease in patients who have had surgery or in whom surgery is contemplated or already planned. Part III, on stroke prevention, complications, and rehabilitation, is not the main focus of the volume and has not been greatly modified. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Louis R. Caplan is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Vasileios-Arsenios Lioutas is an Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.