CNS Flashcards
Rabies most commonly affect which part of the brain?
Eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion in the hippocampus and Purkinje cells
Negri bodies are found in which condition?
Rabies
Encephalitis associated with corneal transplantation
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Albumino-cytologic dissociation is seen in which condition?
GBS
Increased protein concentration with modest increased in cell count
Hirano bodies are associated with what disease?
Alzheimer disease
Intracytoplasmic proximal denditic eosinophilic inclusion consisting of actin
What is condition is associated with the downward displacement of the cerebral tonsils and medulla through the foramen magnum?
Arnold-Chiari malformation
Associated with thoracolumbar meningomyelocele
What is the intracerebral hemorrhage secodnary to long standing hypertension?
Charcot-Bouchard aneurysm
Liquefactive necrosis is seen in which organ?
Infarction (Brain)
Subarachnoid aneurysm is secondary to?
Congenital berry aneurysm, usually at the bifurcation of MCA
Wernicke triad is composed of?
Confusion, ataxia, ophthalmoplegia
Which condition is associated with subcortical leukoencephalopathy, presenting with multiple lacunar infarcts with sparing of the cortex?
Binswanger disease
Associated with hypertension
Pick disease affects which parts of the brain?
Temporal and frontal lobes
Usually seen in women
Huntington disease affects which part of the brain?
Caudate nucleus and putamen
Autosomal dominant
It is also known as the “Idiopathic Parkinson disease”
Lewy bodies
Paralysis agitans
Eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion
von Economo encephalitis is also known as?
Postencephalitic parkinsonism
Lou Gehrig disease is also known as which disease?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Parkinsonism + autonomic dysfunction + orthostatic hypotensio
Shy-Drager syndrome
CAG trinucleotide repeats is associated with which condition?
Huntington disease
Most common form of motor nueron disease ?
ALS
Pseudopalisading arrangement of tumor cells is seen in which condition?
Glioblastoma multiforme
Fried egg appearance is associated with which brain neoplasm?
Oligodendroglioma
Ependymoma affects which part of the brain?
Fourth ventricle
Presents with tubules and rosettes
Whorled pattern and psammoma bodies are seen in which condition?
Meningioma
Originates in arachnoidal cells
Neurilemmoma is also known as?
Schwannoma
Antoni A: interlacing, palisading nueclie
Antoni B: looser
Tumors of peripheral nerve (Schwann cells) are known as?
Neurofibroma
May be part of von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis
Herniation of suprasellar subarachnoid space through incomplete diaphragm sella
Empty sella syndrome
Seen in obese, multiparous women with headaches and HTN
