Neurology Flashcards
Patchy demyelination around axons
Multiple sclerosis
Difficulty raising arms to hold child post C-section
High spinal anaesthetic
Optic neuritis
Multiple sclerosis
Blurred vision worsening with heat
Multiple sclerosis
30-year old woman with trigeminal neuralgia
Multiple sclerosis
Numbness progressing to weakness after a viral infection
Guillain-Barre
Lower limb and pelvic floor weakness + anosmia
ACA stroke
Dementia with occipital hypoperfusion
Lewy body demenia
B-amyloid peptide aggregation and neurofibrillary tangles
Alzheimer’s dementia
3Hz spike-and-wave pattern on EEG
Absence seizure
Seizure with high prolactin
Tonic-clonic
Jaw claudication
Temporal arteritis
Photosensitvity, N+V and aura
Migraine
Pill-rolling tremor/cogwheel/lead-pipe/shuffling gait/mask-like facies/small handwriting/soft voice
Parkinson’s
Inability to voluntarily look down
Progressive supranuclear palsy
Low uptake in basal ganglia on fludeoxyglucose PET scan
Parkinson’s
Xanthochromia
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Bilateral vestibular schwanomma
Type 2 neurofibromatosis
Oligoclonal bands and IgG
MS
Chorea + dementia
Huntington’s disease
Bitemporal heminaopia
Pituitary adenoma
Superior quadrantanopia
Temporal lobe lesion
Inferior quandrantanopia
Parietal lobe lesion
Triad of ataxia, incontinence and confusion
Normal pressure hydrocephalus
Triad of ataxia, ophthalmoplegia and confusion
Wernicke’s encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency)
Triad of nystagmus, intention tremor and staccato/scanning speech
Charcot’s triad (MS)
Kernig’s sign
Meningitis (stiff neck)
Purpuric rash in meningitis
Meningococcal sepsis (Neisseria meningitidis)
Donald duck speech
Pseudobulbar palsy
Pupils that constrict to accommodation and not light
Argyll-Roberton pupils (syphilis, alcohol and diabetes)
Pseudo-pallisading (central necrotic)
Glioblastoma multiforme
Psamomma bodies, spindle cells
Meningioma
Chicken wire vascular appearance
Oligodendroglioma
Thunderclap headache
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Biconvex collection on CT
Epidural haematoma
Headache associated with polymyalgia rheumatica
Temporal arteritis