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Buzzwords Flashcards

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poker face

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parkinson’s disease

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painful horner’s synd

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internal carotid dissection

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split hand sign

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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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thunderclap ‘worst headache in my life’

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subarachnoid haemorrhage

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MRI shows a lesion with a popcorn like appearance

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cavernous malformation ccm

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posterior communicating artery aneurysm can cause a ….

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CNIII palsy

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7
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magnetic gait

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normal pressure hydrocephalus

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hot cross bun sign MRI

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multiple system atrophy

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mri shows sugar coating of spinal cord

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spinal neoplasm

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christmas tree cataract

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myotonic dystrophy

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bag of worms sensation of the eyelid

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neurofibroma in NFT1

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lens shaped appearance on CT

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extradural haematoma

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obese female with slit like ventricles

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idiopathic intracranial hypertension

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14
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mri brain butterfly ring

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glioblastoma multiforme

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painful III palsy

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posterior communicating artery aneurysm

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hockeystick sign

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creutzfeldt jacob prion disease

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mri dural tail sign

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meningioma

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xanthochromic Lumbar Puncture

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Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

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LP shows fresh blood

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traumatic tap

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

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extradural haemorrhage

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cogwheel rigidity

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Parkinson’s (tremor over rigidity)

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raised CK

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muscular Dystrophy

23
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toe walker or positive gowers sign

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Muscular Dystrophy

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“mask-like” expression

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Parkinson’s

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“fluctuating” cognitive deficit

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Lewy Body Dementia or Delirium

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vivid visual hallucinations normally of children and not threatening

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Lewy Body Dementia

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“acute onset” cognitive disturbance that fluctuates

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delirium

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personality/behaviour changes and then dementia

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frontotemporal dementia (Pick’s disease)

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memory and personality problems in someone with a history of cardiovascular disease

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vascular dementia

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stepwise deterioration

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vascular dementia

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pain on loud noise

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facial nerve palsy

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myalgia + myositis + myoglobulinaemia/uria

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rhabdomyolysis (DIC, AKI)

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inflammatory myopathy with poor response to steroids

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inclusion body myositis

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weakness + frontal balding + cataracts + ptosis

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myotonic dystrophy (onset 30s, +ve FHx)

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leg symptoms + midline shift

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falcine herniation

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back pain worse on coughing

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slipped disk

37
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headache worse on coughing

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posterior fossa issue

38
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pleocytosis on CSF

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rule out bacterial meningitis

39
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migraine prophylaxis

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1st line propranolol, topiramate or amitriptyline; 2nd line valproate, pizotifen, gabapentinhow, pregabalin (if one drug does not work by 4/12, try another)

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injury upper brachial plexus

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Erb’s palsy (waiters tip, more common, associated with shoulder dystocia)

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injury lower brachial plexus

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Klumpke’s palsy (claw hand, Horners synd, pulling injury, asleep on bar stool)

42
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+ve Simmond’s test

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Achilles tendon rupture

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anti acetylcholine receptor antibody

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myaesthenia gravis

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purely motor symptoms (UMN and LMN) with ocular sparing

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motor neurone disease

45
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high stepping gait + Romberg’s positive

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cervical myelopathy

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“Racoon” or “Panda” eyes

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fracture of anterior cranial fossa

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diarrhoea + progressive ascending weakness

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Guillain Barre

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“battle sign” behind ears

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fracture of middle cranial fossa - mastoid process of temporal bone

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epigastric rising

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temporal epilepsy

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