BUZZWORDS

Question 1

thunder clap headache

Answer 1

subarachnoid haemorrhage

Question 2

xanthochromic lumbar puncture

Answer 2

subarachnoid haemorrgae (cf-fresh blood- traumatic tap)

Question 3

lucid period after head trauma (often followed by sudden collapse or deterioration)

Answer 3

extradural haemorrhage

Question 4

cogwheel rigidity

Answer 4

parkinsons

Question 5

woody texture muscle swelling

Answer 5

duchenne or beckers MD

Question 6

increaed CK

Answer 6

muscular dystrophy

Question 7

toe walker or positive gowers sign

Answer 7

muscular dystrophy

Question 8

mask-like expression

Answer 8

parkinsons

Question 9

fluctuating cognitive deficit

Answer 9

lewy body dementia or delerium

Question 10

REM disturbance (later in night)

Answer 10

lewy body dementia or PD

Question 11

vivid visual hallucinations normally of kids and not threatening

Answer 11

lewy body dementia

Question 12

acute onset fluctuating cognitive disturbance

Answer 12

delerium

Question 13

personality /behaviour changes then dementia

Answer 13

frontotemproal dementia (picks disease)

Question 14

memory and personality problems with history of CVS disease

Answer 14

vascular dementia

Question 15

stepwise deterioration

Answer 15

vascular dementia

Question 16

pain on loud noise

Answer 16

facial nerve palsy

Question 17

sore 3rd nerve palsy

Answer 17

posterior communicating artery aneurysm

Question 18

myalgia and myositis and myoglobinaemia/uria

Answer 18

rhabdomyolysis

leads to acute renal failure

Question 19

inflammatory myopathy with poor response to steroids

Answer 19

inclusion body myositis

Question 20

weakness and frontal balding and cataract and ptosis

Answer 20

myotonic dystrophy

onset in 30s

usually + family history

Question 21

leg symptoms and midline shift

Answer 21

falcine herniation

Question 22

back pain worse on coughing

Answer 22

slipped disc

Question 23

headache worse on coughing

Answer 23

posterior fossa problem

Question 24

bilateral sciatica, male sexual dysfunction+/- bowel and bladder symtpoms

Answer 24

cauda equina

Question 25

pleocytosis on CSF

Answer 25

rule out bacterial meningits

Question 26

migrain prophylaxis

Answer 26

1st line- propranolol or topiramate or amitrypaline 2nd line- valproate, pizotifen, gabapentin, pregabalin

Question 27

injury to upper brachial plexus

Answer 27

erb's palsy waiters tip associated with shoulder dystonia

Question 28

+ simmonds test

Answer 28

achilles tendon rupture

Question 29

anti acetylecholine receptor antibody

Answer 29

myasthenia gravis

Question 30

purely motor symtpoms with ocular sparing

Answer 30

motor neurone disease

Question 31

cervial myelopathy

Answer 31

high stepping gait and + Rombergs test

Question 32

panda/racoon eyes

Answer 32

anterior cranial fossa farcture

Question 33

battle sign (behind ears)

Answer 33

mid cranial fossa fratcure

Question 34

diarrhoea and weakness

Answer 34

guillian barre syndrome