Neuro Flashcards
What’s the relationship between PCOM and CN3 in fetal PCA variant?
PCOM runs superior and and LATERAL to CN3 in fetal PCA, while normally it runs superior and MEDIAL to CN3.
What’s persistent trigeminal artery?
connection between cavernous ICA and basilar. gives the tau sign.
What forms the vein of Galen?
Two internal cerebral veins.
Where does the vein of Galen drain?
Straight sinus.
what’s Kallmann syndrome?
Arhinencephaly (can’t smell). Hypogonadism. Mental Retardation.
Meckel-Gruber Syndrome?
- Occipital encephalocele. - Renal cysts. - Polydactyly. - Strong association with holoprosencephaly.
de Morsier Syndrome?
Septo-optic dysplasia. - absent septum pellucidum. - hypoplastic chiasm. - Associated with schizencephaly. - Azygos anterior cerebral artery can be seen.
what syndrome is associated with Chiari I?
Klipper-Feil syndrome.
Interdigitated cerebral gyri seen in which condition?
Chiari II malformation
what location is more common for shunt obstruction?
Proximal; mostly from ingrowth of choroid and particulate debris.
Findings in methanol toxicity?
- Optic nerve atrophy. - putaminal hemorrhage. - subcortical WM necrosis.
what’s the most common hereditary stroke disorder?
CADASIL. (young pt with migraine and strokes). NOTCH3 mutation in chromosome 19.
which area is first affected by Alzheimer’s?
Hippoocamus, gets atrophied first.
what’s 11C PiB (Pittsburg compound B)?
Amyloid binding tracer; can be used in diagnosing Alzheimer’s.
what’s singulate island sign?
seen in Dementia with Lewy Bodies, in PET there’s sparing of the posterior singulate gyrus.
how can parkisnons be differentiated from MSA by I-123 MIBG?
By looking at the cardiac/mediastinal ratio; abnormal in PD and normal in MSA.
What’s the most common parkinson plus disease?
Progressive Supra-nuclear Palsy. aka Steele-Richardson-Oleszewski.
What’s signs seen in Progressive Supra-nuclear Palsy?
Micky mouse sign: tegmentum atrophy withs paring tectum anf peduncles. Hummingbird sign: midbrain volume loss with concave upper surface and spared pons.
What’s the most common MR findings in Wilson disease?
T1 bright BG.
What’s the correct position for deep brain stimulating leads?
Sub-thalamic nuclei, 9 mm from midline.
How Krabbe disease looks on CT?
Hyperdensities in thalamus, caudat and deep white matter.
What’s the MRS pattern in MELAS?
elevated lactate and low NAA.
Low-grade tumors that typically enhance?
- Ganglioglioma. - Pilocytic astrocytoma.
what kind of mets does neuroblastoma give to the brain🧠 ?
EXTRA-AXIAL METS (to skull, dura, orbit, …).
What’s genetic association with oligodendroglioma?
1p/19q deletion (I was 19 with kevin in Vancouver). pts with this deletion has a better outcome.
zuckerguss seen with which tumor?
Medulloblastoma - “sugar icing” drop mets along the CSF pathway.
What’s Gorlin syndrome?
- Medulloblastoma, - Dural calcs. - Bifid rib. - Basal cell cancer after RXT - Odontogenic keratocysts.
Location difference between SEGA and subependymal nodules?
SEGA is always near the foramin of Monroe; while SEN are along the wall of the venticle. SEGA grows but SEN don’t.
features of xanthogranuloma in MRI?
- Choroid plexus in origin. - Restricts diffusion. - Seen in adults.
CPA mass invading the IAC?
Schwannoma - “following the schwann in the nerve”.
what lab association seen with hemangioblastoma?
Polycythemia
Alanine in MRS?
is associated with Meningioma.
HIV pt with soap and bubbles appearance in MRI?
cryptococcal meningitis. Also from dilated perivascular spaces.
Watershed infarcts in a kid?
Moyamoya
Artery of Percheron
Single trunk from one the PCAs to feed both thalami and rostral midbrain.
What’s the most common systemic vasculitis to involve the CNS?
PAN
What’s the first segment of the ossicles to be eroded by cholesteatoma?
Long process of the incus.
Air in the semicircular canal?
Perilymphatic fistula. Look for cholesteatoma!
Noise-induced vertigo is seen in what condition?
Superior semicircular canal dehiscence. from long standing high ICP.
Large vestibular aqueduct syndrome
- MC cause of congenital SNHL. - Bilateral. - Associated with absence of bony modiolus of choclea.
most common presenting symptom in glomus jugulare?
Hoarseness!
Gardenigo Syndrome
A complication of apical petrositis; - Otomastoiditis - Face pain (CN V neuropathy) - Lateral rectus palsy (CN VI)
Most common location for mucocele?
Frontal sinus.
What’s the relationship between the vein and the nerve inside the parotid gland?
Retromandibular vein runs MEDIAL to the facial nerve.
Which parotid tumor takes up pertechnetate?
Warthins!
Which nerve sheath tumor has target sign on T2?
Neurofibroma (bright rim with decreased central signal).
Grisel’s Syndrome
Torticollis with atlanto-axial joint inflammation or infection.
What’s the most common intra-ocular mass in an adult?
Melanoma. - Can have “collar button shape” - Related to Bruch’s membrane. Can mets to LIVER –> nect to liver imaging.
What’s the most common benign congenital orbital mass in a child?
Dermoid. Classically, superior and lateral from the frontozygomatico suture.
Raccoon eyes
- Metastatic neuroblastoma - Skull base fracture.
Enlarged pituitary gland with T2 dark rim?
Lymphocytic Hypophysitis.
Orbital mass with fluid-fluid levels?
Lymphangioma
“Owl’s eyes” sign in spine MRI
anterior spinal cord infarct.
What’s the imaging findings seen in Guillain Barre Syndrome?
Enhancement of the nerve roots of the Cauda Equina.
Other locations for Pilocytic astrocytoma other than posterior fossa?
- Hypothalamus - Optic chiasm. Association with NF 1 -Cerebellum They are usually solid.
What’s the classic location for ATRT?
pontomesencephalic junction and partly occupies the interpeduncular cistern.
Cortically-based temporal lobe lesion DDx?
P-DOG - Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA). - DNET - Oligodrndtoglioma (might not be temporal). - Ganglioglioma.
What’s the most common neoplasm associated with chronic intractable epilepsy.
Ganglioglioma
Which antibodies have been implicated as a cause for nonneoplastic autoimmune limbic encephalitis?
Anti–glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) antibodies
MRI findings in Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS)?
Presence of enhancement in the PML lesions with worsening of FLAIR hyperintensity upon immune reconstitution is most compatible with IRIS.
Normally enhancing facial nerve segments?
TMG - Tympanic - Mastoid - Geniculate ganglion.
Susac syndrome
microangiopathy consisting of a triad of encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusions, and hearing loss. The corpus callosum involvement is characteristically central compared to peripheral, callososeptal involvement seen with MS. - Ophthalmologic evaluation with retinal fluorescein angiography is necessary to demonstrate the peripheral retinal arteriolar branch occlusion.