Awad Karim M. - Pocket Neurology

Second Edition

Edited by

M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Emily Choi DeCroos, MD

Neurohospitalist, Department of Neurology, Erlanger Health System
Affiliated Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Karim Awad, MD

Director, Sleep Medicine, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Boston, Massachusetts

Matt T. Bianchi, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

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Pocket neurology / edited by M. Brandon Westover, Emily Choi DeCroos, Karim Awad, Matt T. Bianchi. 2nd edition.

p. ; cm. (Pocket notebook)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4963-0553-4

I. Westover, M. Brandon, editor. II. DeCroos, Emily Choi, editor. III. Awad, Karim M., author. IV. Bianchi, Matt T., 1974- , editor. V. Series: Pocket notebook.

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Partners Neurology Residency, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Matthew B. Bevers, MD, PhD

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