CNS

Question 0

Rabies most commonly affect which part of the brain?

Answer 0

Eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion in the hippocampus and Purkinje cells

Question 1

Negri bodies are found in which condition?

Answer 1

Rabies

Question 2

Encephalitis associated with corneal transplantation

Answer 2

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Question 3

Albumino-cytologic dissociation is seen in which condition?

Answer 3

GBS

Increased protein concentration with modest increased in cell count

Question 4

Hirano bodies are associated with what disease?

Answer 4

Alzheimer disease

Intracytoplasmic proximal denditic eosinophilic inclusion consisting of actin

Question 5

What is condition is associated with the downward displacement of the cerebral tonsils and medulla through the foramen magnum?

Answer 5

Arnold-Chiari malformation

Associated with thoracolumbar meningomyelocele

Question 6

What is the intracerebral hemorrhage secodnary to long standing hypertension?

Answer 6

Charcot-Bouchard aneurysm

Question 7

Liquefactive necrosis is seen in which organ?

Answer 7

Infarction (Brain)

Question 8

Subarachnoid aneurysm is secondary to?

Answer 8

Congenital berry aneurysm, usually at the bifurcation of MCA

Question 9

Wernicke triad is composed of?

Answer 9

Confusion, ataxia, ophthalmoplegia

Question 10

Which condition is associated with subcortical leukoencephalopathy, presenting with multiple lacunar infarcts with sparing of the cortex?

Answer 10

Binswanger disease

Associated with hypertension

Question 11

Pick disease affects which parts of the brain?

Answer 11

Temporal and frontal lobes

Usually seen in women

Question 12

Huntington disease affects which part of the brain?

Answer 12

Caudate nucleus and putamen

Autosomal dominant

Question 13

It is also known as the “Idiopathic Parkinson disease”

Answer 13

Lewy bodies

Paralysis agitans
Eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion

Question 14

von Economo encephalitis is also known as?

Answer 14

Postencephalitic parkinsonism

Question 15

Lou Gehrig disease is also known as which disease?

Answer 15

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

Question 16

Parkinsonism + autonomic dysfunction + orthostatic hypotensio

Answer 16

Shy-Drager syndrome

Question 17

CAG trinucleotide repeats is associated with which condition?

Answer 17

Huntington disease

Question 18

Most common form of motor nueron disease ?

Answer 18

ALS

Question 19

Pseudopalisading arrangement of tumor cells is seen in which condition?

Answer 19

Glioblastoma multiforme

Question 20

Fried egg appearance is associated with which brain neoplasm?

Answer 20

Oligodendroglioma

Question 21

Ependymoma affects which part of the brain?

Answer 21

Fourth ventricle

Presents with tubules and rosettes

Question 22

Whorled pattern and psammoma bodies are seen in which condition?

Answer 22

Meningioma

Originates in arachnoidal cells

Question 23

Neurilemmoma is also known as?

Answer 23

Schwannoma

Antoni A: interlacing, palisading nueclie
Antoni B: looser

Question 24

Tumors of peripheral nerve (Schwann cells) are known as?

Answer 24

Neurofibroma

May be part of von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis

Question 25

Herniation of suprasellar subarachnoid space through incomplete diaphragm sella

Answer 25

Empty sella syndrome

Seen in obese, multiparous women with headaches and HTN