Neurologic Complications of Cancer

by Lisa M. DeAngelis and Jerome B. Posner

Book Overview

Patients with cancer can suffer from a bewildering variety of neurologic signs and symptoms. The neurologic symptoms are often more disabling than the primary cancer. Symptoms including confusion, seizures, pain and paralysis may be a result of either metastases to the nervous system or one of several nonmetastatic complications of cancer. The physician who promptly recognizes neurologic symptoms occurring in a patient with cancer and makes an early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195366743
• ISBN13: 9780195366747
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.