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Practicing Neurology

C URRENT C LINICAL N EUROLOGY

Daniel Tarsy, MD , S ERIES E DITOR

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Practicing Neurology

What You Need to Know,

What You Need to Do

Second Edition

Rahman Pourmand, MD

Department of Neurology, Stony Brook University Hospital,

Stony Brook, NY

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

E-ISBN: 978-1-59745-297-7

Pourmand, Rahman.

Practicing neurology : what you need to know, what you need to do / by Rahman Pourmand.

-- 2nd ed.

p. ; cm. -- (Current clinical neurology)

Includes index.

ISBN 1-58829-609-1 (alk. paper)

1. Neurology--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Nervous system--Diseases--Handbooks, manuals,

etc. I. Title. II. Series.

[DNLM: 1. Nervous System Diseases--diagnosis--Handbooks. 2. Nervous System Diseases--

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