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Neuro Buzzwords Flashcards

1
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thunderclap headache

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subarachnoid haemorrhage

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2
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xanthochromic lumbar puncture

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subarachnoid haemorrhage

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3
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lucid period after head trauma followed by sudden collapse or deterioration

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extradural

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4
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cogwheel rigidity

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parkinsons

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5
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woody texture muscle swelling

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DMD or Becker MD

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6
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raised CK

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muscular dystrophy

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7
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toe walker or positive gower’s sign

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muscular dystrophy

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8
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mask like expression

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parkinsons

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9
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fluctuating cognitive defect

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LBD or delirium

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10
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REM disturbance

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LBD or parkinsons

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11
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vivid visual hallucinations, usually of children and not threatening

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LBD

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12
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acute onset cognitive disturbance that fluctuates

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delirium

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13
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personality/behaviour changes and then dementia

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frontotemporal dementia (Picks disease)

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14
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memory of personality problems in someone with history of cardiovascular disease

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vascular dementia

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15
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stepwise deterioration

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vascular dementia

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16
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pain on loud noise

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facial nerve palsy

17
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painful third nerve palsy

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posterior communicating artery aneurysm

18
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myalgia and myositis and myoglobulinaemia/uria

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rhabdomyolysis - DIC and acute renal failur

19
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inflammatory myopathy with poor response to steroid

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inclusion body myositis

20
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weakness and frontal balding and cataracts and ptosis

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myotonic dystrophy

onset 30s, +ve FxH

21
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leg symptoms + midline shift

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falcine herniation

22
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back pain worse on coughing

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slipped disc

23
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headache worse on coughing

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posterior fossa issue

24
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bilateral sciatic, male sexual dysfunction, bowel/bladder symptoms

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cauda equina

25
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pleocytosis on CSF

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rule out bacterial meningitis

26
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migraine prophylaxis 1st line

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propanolol
topiramate
amitriptylline

27
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migraine prophylaxis 2nd line

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valproate
pizotifen
gabapentin
pregabalin

28
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injury to upper brachial plexus

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Erbs palsy - waiters tip

more common, associated with shoulder dystocia

29
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injury to lower brachial plexus

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Klumpke’s palsy - claw hand

horners syndrome, pulling injury, asleep on bar stool

30
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+ve simmonds test

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Achilles tendon rupture

31
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anti-AChR antibody

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myasthenia gravis

32
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purely motor symptoms with ocular sparing

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MND

33
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cervical myelopathy

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high stepping gait

romberg’s positive

34
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racoon or panda eyes

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fracture of anterior cranial fossa

35
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battle sign behind ears

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fracture of middle cranial fossa, mastoid process of temporal bone

36
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diarrhoea and progressive ascending weakness

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Guillain Barre

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