Neuro Flashcards
What is torcular herophili
Confluence of sinuses
When do fontanelles close
24 months
When is the brain done myelinating
9 years old
Def Dyke-Davidoff-Mason
Hemi-cerebral atrophy/hypoplasia, compensatory IPSI osseous hypertrophy and Contra hemiparesis
Sign of Asterion is what?
Sutural closure of Parietomastoid and occipitomastoid and lamboidal suture
Hyperostosis frontalis interna + Obesity + hirsutism is AKA
Morgagni syndrome
Leptomeningeal cyst is formed how?
Skull Fx with dural tear, prevents union
Anomalies seen with Chiari 1
Klippel-Feil, syrinx, basilar invagination, C0/C1 assimilation
Anomalies seen with Chiari 2
Myelomeningocele, syringohydromyelia, scoliosis, tectal beaking
Def Meckel syndrome
Holoprosencephly/Occipital encephalocele, renal cystic dysplasia, postaxial polydactyly
Morsier syndrome is AKA
Septoopic dysplasia
Def Septo-optic dysplasia
Absent septum pellucidum with optic nerve hypoplasia
Def Kallmann syndrome
Anosmia/hypoosmia, hypogonadism and mental retardation
Def Walker-Warburg syndrome
Ocular malformation, cephaloceles, congenital hypotonia and death within 1 year
What is a porencephalic cyst
CSF space lined by glial white matter
Def Dandy-Walker syndrome
Cystic dilation of 4th ventricle, enlarged posterior fossa and cerebellar hypoplasia
Def Dandy-Walker variant
Mild vermis hypoplasia, cystic space from 4th ventricle widening
L’Hermitte-Duclos dz is what
Cerebellar dysplasia, dysplasia ganglioctyoma. Seen with Cowden disease
MC phakomatosis
NF1 (Von recklinghausen)
What is a Lisch nodule
Pigmented Iris hamartoma seen in NF1 (Not in NF2)
Hallmark tumor of NF1
Plxiform neurofibroma
MR signal of a hamartoma
High T1, very high T2, no enhancement or mass effect
Hallmark of NF2
Acoustic schwannomas
3 common intramedullary lesions of the spine
Astrocytoma, Ependymoma and hemangioblastoma
3 common intradural, extramedullary lesions of the spine
Meningioma, Schwannoma (MC) and neurofibroma
Classic triad of tuberous sclerosis
Papular facial nevus (adenoma sebaceum), Seizures, mental retardation
Cortical tubers are AKA
cortical hamartomas
MR signal of cortical tubers in kids and adults
Kids (T1 High, T2 Low); Adults (T1 Iso/low, T2 High); only 5% enhance
Tumor ass’d with VHL
hemangioblastoma
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasis is AKA
Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome
Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome lesions include
telangiectasia, AVM, fistulas, aneurysms. characterized with nose bleeds (85%)
% of arterial infarcts that are hemorrhagic
25%
Lucid interval is ass’d with what hematoma
Epidural hematoma
3 MC locations of DAI
- Gray-white matter junction in frontotemporal
- posterior body of the splenium of the corpus callosum
- Dorsolateral upper brain stem
2 MC brain herniations
Subfalcine - Cingulate gyrus goes under falx cerebri
Inferior/descending transtentorial uncal herniation
Arterial occlusion seen with subfalcine herniation
Anterior cerebral artery, esp the pericallosal branch
Arterial occlusion seen with descending transtentorial herniation
Posterior cerebral artery, leads to Duret hemorrhage
Def kernohan’s notch phenomenon
Indentation of the contralateral cerebral crus by the tentorium due to mass effect. Seen in a inferior/descending tentorial herniation
Early reliable sign of cerebral edema
Sulcal effacement
MC traumatic AV fistula
Carotid-Cavernous sinus fistula
Pneumocephalus, how does patient position affect in epidural vs subdural location
Epidural - No change with pt movement
Subdural - Changes with pt movement
MC cause of CSF fistula
Skull base fx
Def Wyburn-mason
Multiple retinal, brain AVM with cutaneous nevi
MC parenchymal (pial) AVM
85% supratentorial
Multiple venous angiomas are seen in which syndrome
Blue Rubber Bleb nevus syndrome
MC brain vascular malformation
Cavernous angioma
Common structure involved in hypoxia-ischemic encephalopathy
basal ganglia
What artery occlusion would affect the septum pellucidum and anterior 1/3 of the corpus callosum
Pericallosal branch from the ACA
Idiopathic Progressive arteriopathy of childhood is AKA
Moyamoya
Def Menkes’ Kinky hair dz
X-linked neurodegenerative condition with copper metabolism issues
MC bug for bacterial meningitis in kids
H. influenza
Syphillitic arteritis is AKA
Cerebrovascular lues
MC systemic necrotizing arteritis with CNS manifestations
Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN)
Polyarteritis nodosa affects which vessels
Small/medium arteries leading to microaneurysms
MC loc for venous sinus occlusion in the brain
Superior sagittal sinus
MC loc for veins in the brain
Superior cortical veins
4 categories of glial tumors
Astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, ependymal tumors and choroid plexus tumors
Brain tumors mets or primary more common in adults
Mets is more common
Tumors ass’d with tuberous sclerosis
Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA)
MC loc of ependymal tumors
infratentorial; 4th ventricle
Myxoppillary ependymal tumor location?
Spinal cord; Filum terminale
MC loc of papillomas in kids vs adults
Kids - lateral ventricle
Adult - 4th ventricle
MC primary brain tumor
Astrocytoma
2nd primary MC brain tumor
Meningioma
Top 2 MC sites of a schwannoma
CN8 and CN5
% of brain tumors from mets
~33%
MC location of a medulloblastoma
Cerebellar vermis - 90%
2 MC posterior fossa tumors in kids
Pilocytic astrocytomas and medulloblastoma
2 MC posterior fossa tumors in adults
Hemangioblastoma and brain stem glioma
MC non-neoplastic pineal mass
Pineal cyst
What % of medulloblastoma are midline
90% and can lead to drop mets
Top 2 lesions of the cerebellopontine angle
Schwannoma followed by meningioma
Def Gradenigo syndrome
- Petrous apicitis
- Abducens nerve palsy
- V1/V2 distribution pain
Paraganglioma by the cochlea is known as
Glomus tympanicum
Normal MR signal of pituitary
Ant is iso to brain on T1 and T2
Post is high T1, low T2
MC intrasellar mass
Microadenoma
Def Sheehan syndrome
Postpartum infarct of pituitary leading to empty sella
Size cutoff between micro and macropituitary adenoma
10mm
MC benign nasopharyngeal tumor
Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibromas