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(Contemporary Neurology Series.) By Robert C. Griggs, Jerry R. Mendell, and Robert G. Miller. 434 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, F.A. Davis, 1994. $135. ISBN 0-8036-4410-8.

In his foreword to this new book about muscle diseases, Lewis P. Rowland asks the obvious embarrassing question: ``There is already a plethora of books on neuromuscular diseases. Why yet one more?'' The only satisfactory answer (one that Rowland does not offer) would be that this book is much better than the others. So is it better? My answer is yes -- in some ways, and for some readers.

Neuromuscular diseases come in four anatomical varieties: motor neuron diseases, peripheral neuropathies, disorders of neuromuscular transmission, and myopathies. The symptoms associated with these categories overlap considerably, and the art of diagnosis . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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