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Stroke Syndromes
edited by Julien Bogousslavsky and Louis Caplan, 2nd ed, ISBN 0-521-77142-0,
747 pp, $200, Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Arch Neurol. 2002;59:1659.
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Seven hundred forty-seven pages devoted exclusively to descriptions
of stroke syndromes is quite a lot, both of pages and cost. However, it is
the most informative consideration of clinical syndromes caused by cerebral
vascular disease. Almost 500 pages are given to the signs and symptoms of
ischemic stroke, 20 to hemorrhages, and 25 to venous diseases. Surprisingly,
only 10 are devoted to carotid occlusion—fewer than that devoted to
arterial dissections or spinal stroke.
Its major shortcoming is that it is not designed as a ready reference
tool for therapy and diagnostic approaches. This is unfortunate in an age
where clinical examination is almost simultaneously linked to vascular and
neuroimaging, and where more and more often, imaging precedes clinical evaluation
so that the physician's time, energy, and knowledge can be devoted to therapy
and not only to localization of the clinical phenomena. Nevertheless, this
second edition serves as a resource that . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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