Cerebellar ataxia Flashcards
1
Q
Presentation - UL
A
- Ataxia
- dysdiadokokinesis, impaired finger-nose testing - dysmetria, intention tremor, rebound phenomenom
2
Q
Presentation - LL
A
Broad based gait
Romberg’s negative
Impaired heel-shin test
Hypotonia and dyssynergia
3
Q
Presentation - CN
A
Nystagmus, broken pursuit, hypermetric saccades, slurred staccato speech
4
Q
Symptoms on the right - where is the lesion??
A
Right side
5
Q
Causes of cerebellar syndrome
A
Demyelination - MS
Alcoholic cerebellar degeneration
Posterior fossa SOL
Brainstem lesion
Friedrich’s ataxia
Ataxic telangectasia
Hypothyroidism
Spinocerebellar degeneration
Drugs - carbamazepine, lithium, phenytoin
6
Q
Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration in which cancers?
A
Ovary, uterine, breast, lung, Hodgkin’s
