Emergencies | The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology

Authors: Flaherty, Alice W.; Rost, Natalia S.

Title: Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology, The, 2nd Edition

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Emergencies

Adrenal crisis, p. 199

Anaphylaxis, p. 191

Bleeding, extracranial, p. 192

Cholinergic crisis, p. 82

Cardiac, p. 203

Coma, p. 29

Compartment syndrome, p. 95

Dystonic reaction, acute, p. 76

Empyema, CNS, p. 55

Epidural hematoma, p. 61

Extraocular paralysis, p. 47

Guillain-Barr syndrome, p. 37

Head trauma, p. 182

Hypertensive crisis, p. 210

Intracerebral hemorrhage, p. 64

Meningitis, p. 56

Myasthenic crisis, p. 82

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, p. 170

Pituitary apoplexy, p. 190

Psychiatric, p. 97

Respiratory, p. 217

Serotonin syndrome, severe, p. 164

Spinal cord compression, p. 113

Status epilepticus, p. 97

Stroke, acute, p. 20

Stroke, cerebellar, p. 26

Subarachnoid hemorrhage, p. 61

Visual loss, sudden, p. 44

Wernicke's syndrome, p. 72

Figure 1. Lateral and medial cortical surface anatomy. (Reprinted with permission from Duus P. Topical Diagnosis in Neurology. New York: Thieme, 1983:352.)

FRONT COVER: New technology in perfusion imaging. This perfusion-weighted axial MRI section shows decreased cerebral blood flow (blue) after a stroke, in the territory of the patient's right middle cerebral artery. When compared to diffusion weighted images in the same patient, the technique allows identification of diffusion-perfusion mismatch, distinguishing irreversibly infarcted tissue from the at-risk ischemic penumbra. Courtesy of Dr. William Copen, MGH.