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By Randolph W. Evans. 663 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1996. $95. ISBN 0-7216-4352-3.

This book is an excellent review of the neurology of trauma. It addresses neurologists, neurosurgeons, and emergency medicine physicians. There are comprehensive sections on head trauma, spinal trauma, plexus and peripheral-nerve injuries, post-traumatic pain syndromes, environmental trauma, post-traumatic sequelae, and medicolegal aspects.

Strategies for the rapid diagnosis and management of head injury are well discussed, including historical aspects of cerebral trauma and post-traumatic syndromes. There is appropriate attention to post-traumatic sequelae with regard to the neurobehavioral, neuropsychological, and cognitive outcome. This particular aspect of head-injury treatment is not well discussed in the literature, but this book presents the issues completely . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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