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Neuro Flashcards

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Neurocysticercosis

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Vesicular
Colloidal vesicular
Granular nodular
Nodular calcified

Vegans can’t get neurocysticercosis

Usually involve grey white matter junction

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Double rim sign

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Cerebral abscess
Seen on SWI/T2 low signal outer rim, high signal inner rim
Not seen on GBM

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TORCH Infections

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Congenital CNS infections
Toxoplasmosis
Other (syphilis, varicella zoster, parvovirus B19)
Rubella
CMV - most common
HSV

Ventriculomegaly, periventricular calcification

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Sub ependymoma

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Older age group compared to ependymoma
Can look similar but minimal emhancement
Benign and slow growing

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Chorus Plexus Papilloma

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Benign uncommon intraventricular tumour
Adults posterior fossa
Paeds lateral ventricles
Marked homogenous enhancement

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Rathke Cleft Cyst Pathognomic Feature

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Cyst with a dot

No internal enhancement

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Dural sinus occlusive disease

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Infective dural sinus thrombosis seen in acute otomastoiditis

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Inverted papilloma

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Non-cancerous sinonasal tumour
Middle aged men
Convoluted cerebriform pattern T2/T1C

Cannot tell confidently tell apart from sinonasal carcinoma on imaging

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Aggressive soft tissue mass centred on olfactory region

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Olfactory neuroblastoma
Sinonasal carcinoma
Menigioma/hammguipericytoma( solitary fibrous tumour of the dura)

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Allergic Fungal Sinusitis

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Opacified expanded sinsuses with hyperdense CT, low T2 balls due to fungal concretions. Hyper intense peripheral tissues.

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Branchial Cleft Cyst

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Cystic dilation of remnant of clefts

2nd: below angle of mandible, anterior to SCM muscle

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Malignant Salivary Gland Tumours

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Adenocystic carcinoma
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma

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Benign Salivary Gland Tumours

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Pleomorphic adenoma
Warthin Tumour

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Odontogenic Meaning

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Relating to tissue that is involved in the formation of teeth

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Dentigerous Cysts

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Benign non-inflammatory odontogenic cysts well defined lucency surrounding an unerrupted crown of an unerrupted tooth.

Slightly older population than OKCs as occur with secondary dentition

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Radiolucent lesions of the mandible

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Odontogenic vs Non-Odontogenic

O:
Periapical Cyst
Periapical abscess
Dentigerous Cyst
Odontogenic Keratocysts (Gorlin Goltz)
Ameloblastoma

Non-O:
Fibrous dysplasia, mets, myeloma, ABC, simple cyst

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-melic

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Related to a limb

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Fibrous Dyslasia Syndromes

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McCune-Albright: polyostotic FD, precocious puberty, cafe au lait spots
Mazabraud: FD, intramuscular myxomas

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Wharton’s Duct

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Sub-mandibular duct

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Stenson’s Duct

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Parotid duct

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Laryngocoele

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Air filled cystic lesion in paraglottic space in continuity with laryngeal ventricle

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Blood in middle ear

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Haemotympanum

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Intraconal lesions sparing optic nerve

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Cavernous haemangioma
Lymphatic malformation
Orbital lymphoma

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Intraconal lesions involving the nerve

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Optic nerve glioma
Optic nerve meningioma
Optic neuritis
Pseudo tumour
Lymphoma

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Lacrimal Gland Masses

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Inflamm:
Sarcoid
Pseudotumour
Sjogren

Neoplastic:
Pleomorphic adenoma
Adenoid cystic carcinoma

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Sjogren Syndrome

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AI condition of the exocrine lacrimal and salivary glands associated

Salt and pepper appearance on MRI

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Globe calcification

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Retinal: retinalblastoma
Coats: small globe, retinal detachment with exudates

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Colpocephaly

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Enlargement of the occipital horns

Associated with agenesis of the corpus callosum

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Osteoporosis Circumscripta (Cranii)

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Discrete radiolucent regions of the skull. Often seen in the context of lyric phase of pager’s disease but may be seen in other conditions e.g. hyperparathyroidism

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