Caplan's stroke : a clinical approach / Stroke edited by Louis R Caplan, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. USA. - Fifth edition. - ix, 640 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Preceded by Caplan's stroke / Louis R. Caplan. 4th ed. Philadelphia : Elsevier/Saunders, c2009.

Includes bibliographial references and index.

Introduction and perspective / Louis R. Caplan -- Pathology, anatomy, and pathophysiology of stroke / Louis R. Caplan and David Liebeskind -- Diagnosis and the clinical encounter / Louis R. Caplan and Fernando Baringamentaria -- Imaging and laboratory diagnosis / Louis R. Caplan, Bruce Campbell, and Steven Davis -- Genetics of stroke / Stephanie Debette and Louis R. Caplan -- Treatment / Louis R. Caplan and Jeffrey Saver -- Large artery occlusive disease of the anterior circulation / Louis R. Caplan and Lawrence Wechsler -- Large vessel occlusive disease of the posterior circulation / Louis R. Caplan and Jong S. Kim -- Penetrating and branch artery disease / Louis R. Caplan, Geoffrey Donnan, and Marie Dagonnier -- Brain embolism / Louis R. Caplan and Pierre Amarenco -- Post-cardiac arrest encephalopathy / Louis R. Caplan and Michael DeGeorgia -- Non-atherosclerotic vasculopathies / Louis R. Caplan and Jose Biller -- Subarachnoid hemorrhage, aneurysms, and vascular malformations / Tudor Jovin and Louis R. Caplan -- Intracerebral hemorrhage / Louis R. Caplan and Carlos Kase -- Stroke in children and young adults / Gabrielle DeVeber, Aneesh Singhal, and Louis R. Caplan -- Spinal cord vascular disease / Louis R. Caplan and Ayrton Massaro -- Cerebral venous thrombosis / Louis R. Caplan and Marie-Germaine Bousser -- Stroke prevention / Louis R. Caplan and Phillip Gorelick -- Complications in stroke patients / Louis R. Caplan and Sandeep Kumar -- Recovery, rehabilitation, and repair / Steven Cramer and Louis R. Caplan.

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Cerebrovascular disease--Diagnosis.
Stroke--diagnosis
Stroke--therapy
Cerebrovascular Disorders--diagnosis
Cerebrovascular Disorders--therapy



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