Harrison's Neurology in Clinical Medicine.pdf
Harrison's Neurology in Clinical Medicine.pdf
HARRISON’S
Neurology in
Clinical Medicine
Second Edition
Editors
ANTHONY S. FAUCI, MD
Chief, Laboratory of Immunoregulation;
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
DENNIS L. KASPER, MD
William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine, Professor of
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School;
Director, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
DAN L. LONGO, MD
Scientific Director, National Institute on Aging,
National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda and Baltimore
EUGENE BRAUNWALD, MD
Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School; Chairman,TIMI Study Group,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
STEPHEN L. HAUSER, MD
Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor and Chairman,
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
J. LARRY JAMESON, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine;
Vice President for Medical Affairs
and Lewis Landsberg Dean,
Northwestern University Feinberg
School of Medicine, Chicago
Derived from Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition
JOSEPH LOSCALZO, MD, PhD
Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School; Chairman, Department of Medicine;
Physician-in-Chief, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
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Editor
Stephen L. Hauser, MD
Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor and Chairman,
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
Associate Editor
Scott Andrew Josephson, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology,
University of California, San Francisco
HARRISON’S
Neurology in
Clinical Medicine
Second Edition
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