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- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Audio and Video Files
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- Chapter 3 Headache
- Chapter 4 Back and Limb Pain
- Chapter 5 Dizziness
- Chapter 6 Sensory Loss and Paresthesias
- Chapter 7 Weakness
- Chapter 8 Cognitive Loss
- Chapter 9 Spells
- Chapter 10 Pain
- Chapter 11 Cerebrovascular Disease
- Chapter 12 Movement Disorders
- Chapter 13 Immune and Infectious Diseases
- Chapter 14 Neuro-oncology
- Index
- Video Appendix
- Chapter 1 Video
- Chapter 1 Audio
- Chapter 4 Video
- Chapter 5 Video
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- Chapter 7 Video
- Chapter 8 Video
- Chapter 9 Video
- Chapter 12 Video
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(p. 430) Immune and Infectious Diseases
- Chapter:
- (p. 430) Immune and Infectious Diseases
- Author(s):
Andrea C. Adams
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780190206895.003.0013
Many immune-mediated diseases and infections affect the central and peripheral nervous systems. The common feature that characterizes both immune-mediated diseases and infections is a subacute temporal profile. Immune-mediated disease can affect only the nervous system or involve the nervous system as part of a systemic illness, as in vasculitis and connective tissue disease. Multiple sclerosis (MS), the most common disabling neurologic illness of young people, is the prototypical immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS).
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- Mayo Foundation Disclaimer
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Audio and Video Files
- Chapter 1 The Neurologic Examination
- Chapter 2 Diagnostic Tests
- Chapter 3 Headache
- Chapter 4 Back and Limb Pain
- Chapter 5 Dizziness
- Chapter 6 Sensory Loss and Paresthesias
- Chapter 7 Weakness
- Chapter 8 Cognitive Loss
- Chapter 9 Spells
- Chapter 10 Pain
- Chapter 11 Cerebrovascular Disease
- Chapter 12 Movement Disorders
- Chapter 13 Immune and Infectious Diseases
- Chapter 14 Neuro-oncology
- Index
- Video Appendix
- Chapter 1 Video
- Chapter 1 Audio
- Chapter 4 Video
- Chapter 5 Video
- Chapter 6 Video
- Chapter 7 Video
- Chapter 8 Video
- Chapter 9 Video
- Chapter 12 Video
- Chapter 13 Video