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A - Board Reveiew Misc > Neuro Path > Flashcards

Neuro Path Flashcards

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Narrowing of brain gyri with widening of sulci

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Alzheimers disease

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neurofibrillary tau tangles and B amyloid cores

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Alzhiemers disease

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Lewy Body Dementia

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Think parkinsons

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Guillan barre syndrome

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Destroys peripheral schwann cells.
Ascending paralysis
Related to campylobacter

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5
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Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

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Correlated to JC virus in HIV patients

Leads to destruction of oligodendrocytes.

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partial/Focal seizures

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Common in the medial temporal lobe preceded by a seizure aura.

Simple partial - Concious with motor ticks
Complex - Loss of conciousness

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Absence seizure

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Generalize seizure that has no postictal confusion.

Presents with blank stare.

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Myoclonic

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Quick repeptitive jerks

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Tonic- clonic seizure

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grand mal

alternative stiffening and movement

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Cafe au lait spots with lisch nodules and cutaneous neurofibromas.

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Neurofibromatosis type I

Mutated NF-1

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Port wine stain at birth, tram track calcifications in brain unilaterally, retardation

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Sturge weber syndrome

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Brain tumor with spindle cells arranged in a whorled pattern with psammoma bodies

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Meningioma

Benign

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Pseudopalisading pleomorphic cell brain tumor with central areas of necrosis and hemorrhage

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Glioblastoma multiforme

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14
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Which type of tumor most commonly effects the vestibular CN 8

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Schwannnoma

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15
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Chicken wire capillary pattern on brain tumor

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oligodendroglioma

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Pt exibiting mass in brain with excessive prolactin formation and bitemporal hemianopia

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Pituitar adenoma pushing on optic tract and causing release of prolactin from the anterior pituitary.

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Homer wright rosettes in a childs brain tumor

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Medulloblastoma

Can block the 4th ventrical.

18
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Rosenthal fibers in a childs brain tumor

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pilocytic astrocytoma

Cell types will be eosinophilc and corkscrew in fashion.

19
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Tumor growth in which region can destroy CN III

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An uncal herniation

Results in blown pupil, down and out gaze, ipsilateral PCA

A - Board Reveiew Misc (64 decks)

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