Magnetic Resonance of Myelination and Myelin Disorders - Hardcover

Knaap, Marjo S. Van Der; Valk, Jaap

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540222863 ISBN 13: 9783540222866

Publisher: Springer, 2005

Synopsis

Our thanks go to our colleagues at the VU Univer- Preface to the Third Edition sity Medical Center and to those in other hospitals Reading through the prefaces of the two previous edi- who referred their patients to us. We are indebted to tions,we can say that much of what was said there still all colleagues who allowed us to use their MR images, holds. At the same time,however,much has changed. published or unpublished,making it possible for us to There has been immense progress in the technical present illustrations of nearly all known white matter possibilities of magnetic resonance and in the know- disorders. Two colleagues were particularly helpful ledge of genetic defects, biochemical abnormalities, and provided us with essential and unpublished f- and cellular processes underlying myelin disorders. ures: our friends Susan Blaser,from the Hospital for This immense progress has prompted us to embark Sick Children in Toronto,and Zoltán Patay,from the upon the enormous task of rewriting the previous King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh. edition and adding 40 chapters. In doing so we have Many people at the VU University Medical Center tried to cover most white matter disorders,hereditary have been of great technical help to us in producing and acquired,and to present a collection of images to high quality images and in providing secretarial illustrate the field to the fullest possible extent. This assistance. The contributions of these people are edition will therefore be more complete than the pre- mentioned separately in the acknowledgements.

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Review:

From the reviews of the third edition:

"This book provides a comprehensive, lucid description of particularly challenging clinical entities. With the third edition, the authors have greatly broadened an excellent reference; I would recommend this book for any practicing radiologist faced with challenging MR examinations of the adult or pediatric brain." (Doody's Publisher's Club; Reviewer: Edward H. Herskovits, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center).

"What a fabulous book! ... The contents describe in great depth all white matter disorders known today, both adult and paediatric, both inherited and acquired. ... This is most definitely a reference book – a terrific reference book. ... It is highly recommended – a must for neuroradiology/neurology, both adult and paediatric. Both departments are incomplete without it. I have never so strongly endorsed the purchase of a book. I am both grateful and delighted to have had the opportunity to review it." (Shelley Renowden, Journal of Neurology, Vol. 253, 2006)

Synopsis:

This is the third edition of Magnetic Resonance of Myelination and Myelin Disorders, a standard text in the field. The book has been extensively revised and expanded to do justice to the rapid advances in MR technology, molecular biochemistry, and genetics and the discovery of new disease entities with prominent white matter involvement. Forty chapters have been added, and the number of illustrations has risen considerably. The ability to confirm the presence of genetic alterations in a number of disorders allows more advantageous presentation of the phenotypic variation as expressed in different MR patterns. Wider coverage is given to white matter disorders, hereditary and acquired, in the adult population.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 3540222863
• ISBN 13: 9783540222866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1100