Disorders of Voluntary Muscle

A comprehensive reference-text on disorders of muscle for clinicians, first published in 1964 and most recently in 1988. The structure of the previous edition is retained, with sections devoted respectively to anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry; pathology; clinical problems in neuromuscular disease; and electrodiagnosis. This updated edition adds two co-editors, George Karpati and David Hilton-Jones. Among the changes in this edition are new chapters on the cell biology of muscle; the molecular biology of muscle; the light microscopic morphological abnormalities in skeletal muscle disease; metabolic and endocrine myopathies; mitochondrial and lipid storage diseases of muscle; and myasthenia and related disorders. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.