Buzzwords Flashcards
poker face
parkinson’s disease
painful horner’s synd
internal carotid dissection
split hand sign
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
thunderclap ‘worst headache in my life’
subarachnoid haemorrhage
MRI shows a lesion with a popcorn like appearance
cavernous malformation ccm
posterior communicating artery aneurysm can cause a ….
CNIII palsy
magnetic gait
normal pressure hydrocephalus
hot cross bun sign MRI
multiple system atrophy
mri shows sugar coating of spinal cord
spinal neoplasm
christmas tree cataract
myotonic dystrophy
bag of worms sensation of the eyelid
neurofibroma in NFT1
lens shaped appearance on CT
extradural haematoma
obese female with slit like ventricles
idiopathic intracranial hypertension
mri brain butterfly ring
glioblastoma multiforme
painful III palsy
posterior communicating artery aneurysm
hockeystick sign
creutzfeldt jacob prion disease
mri dural tail sign
meningioma
xanthochromic Lumbar Puncture
Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
LP shows fresh blood
traumatic tap
lucid period after head trauma (often followed by sudden collapse or deterioration)
extradural haemorrhage
cogwheel rigidity
Parkinson’s (tremor over rigidity)
raised CK
muscular Dystrophy
toe walker or positive gowers sign
Muscular Dystrophy
“mask-like” expression
Parkinson’s
“fluctuating” cognitive deficit
Lewy Body Dementia or Delirium
vivid visual hallucinations normally of children and not threatening
Lewy Body Dementia
“acute onset” cognitive disturbance that fluctuates
delirium
personality/behaviour changes and then dementia
frontotemporal dementia (Pick’s disease)
memory and personality problems in someone with a history of cardiovascular disease
vascular dementia
stepwise deterioration
vascular dementia
pain on loud noise
facial nerve palsy
myalgia + myositis + myoglobulinaemia/uria
rhabdomyolysis (DIC, AKI)
inflammatory myopathy with poor response to steroids
inclusion body myositis
weakness + frontal balding + cataracts + ptosis
myotonic dystrophy (onset 30s, +ve FHx)
leg symptoms + midline shift
falcine herniation
back pain worse on coughing
slipped disk
headache worse on coughing
posterior fossa issue
pleocytosis on CSF
rule out bacterial meningitis
migraine prophylaxis
1st line propranolol, topiramate or amitriptyline; 2nd line valproate, pizotifen, gabapentinhow, pregabalin (if one drug does not work by 4/12, try another)
injury upper brachial plexus
Erb’s palsy (waiters tip, more common, associated with shoulder dystocia)
injury lower brachial plexus
Klumpke’s palsy (claw hand, Horners synd, pulling injury, asleep on bar stool)
+ve Simmond’s test
Achilles tendon rupture
anti acetylcholine receptor antibody
myaesthenia gravis
purely motor symptoms (UMN and LMN) with ocular sparing
motor neurone disease
high stepping gait + Romberg’s positive
cervical myelopathy
“Racoon” or “Panda” eyes
fracture of anterior cranial fossa
diarrhoea + progressive ascending weakness
Guillain Barre
“battle sign” behind ears
fracture of middle cranial fossa - mastoid process of temporal bone
epigastric rising
temporal epilepsy
