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Neurology Flashcards

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What movement tests C5 nerve root? Which muscle is involved?

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Shoulder abduction

Deltoid. Also tests axillary nerve.

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What movement tests C6 nerve root? Which muscle is involved?

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Elbow flexion

Brachioradialis

Not biceps, which has mixed root innervation.

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What movement tests C7 nerve root? Which muscle is involved?

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Wrist extension

Wrist extensors. Also tests radial nerve.

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What movement tests C8 nerve root? Which muscle is involved?

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Finger extension

Long extensors.

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What movement tests T1 nerve root? Which muscle is involved?

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Finger abduction

Interossei muscles. Also tests ulnar nerve.

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6
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How do you specifically test the median nerve.

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Thumb abduction.

Abductor pollicis brevis. Part of LOAF in the thenar eminence

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What do you get claw hand in an ulnar nerve palsy?

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Loss of lumbricals that normally flex the MCPs and extend the fingers.

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Explain these findings:

Positive Rinne’s with equal Weber’s

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Normal.

Positive Rinne’s = AC > BC

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9
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Explain these findings:

Negative Rinne’s on L side
Weber’s louder on L side

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L sided conductive hearing loss

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Explain these findings:

Positive Rinne’s
Weber’s louder on R side

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L sided SNHL

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11
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What is the ABCD2 score for TIAs

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Age >60
BP >140/90
Clinical features: unilateral weakness (2) or speech impairment (1)
Duration (0-59 = 1, >60 = 2)
Diabetes

0-3 - discharge with review

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Holmes-Adie pupil

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Myotonic dilated pupil that is unresponsive to light and sluggish response to accommodation.

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Argyll-Robertson pupil

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Syphilitic Prostitute’s pupil

Accommodates but doesn’t react.
Small, irregular pupil with atrophied iris.

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Marcus Gunn pupil

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RAPD - pupil dilates on direct aspect of swing test.

Optic nerve atrophy and retinal disease

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What happens to evoked potentials in MS?

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They are delayed in all modalities including auditory, visual and sensory.

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16
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Causes of optic atrophy

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Commonest: MS and glaucoma

VISION CAC
Vascular - DM, GCA, CVA
Inflammatory - MS
Sarcoid
Infectious - VZV, TB, syphilis
Oedema - papilloedema
Neoplasia - hymphoma/leukaemia infiltration

Compression - Glaucoma, neoplasm, Paget’s
Alcohol and other toxins
Congenital - Leber’s, HMSN, Friedrich’s

17
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Causes of RAPD

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Optic atrophy

Retinal disease

  • retinal detachment
  • retinal vein or artery occlusion
  • severe diabetic retinopathy
  • age-related macular degeneration
18
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Signs of Lateral Medullary Syndrome

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The key finding is loss of sensation to pain and temperature contralaterally in body and ipsilaterally in face. Due to disruption of spinothalamic tract and spinal trigeminal nucleus.

DANVAH

  • Dysphagia: disrupt CN IX + X
  • Ataxia: inferior cerebellar peduncle
  • Nystagmus: inferior cerebellar peduncle
  • Vertigo: vestibular nuclear
  • Anaesthesia - dissociated
  • Horner’s
19
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Definition of strabismus

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Abnormal alignment of eyes

20
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Features of an oculomotor CN III palsy

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Ptosis + divergent strabismus (down and out) + opthalmoplegia

Medical = normal pupil
Surgical = mydriasis
21
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How does the direction of nystagmus differ between cerebellar and vestibular cause?

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Cerebellar: fast phase towards side of lesion, maximal towards side of lesion.

Vestibular: fast phase away from lesion, maximal away from side of lesion.

22
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What are the 4 types of Motor Neurone Disease?

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (50%)
Primary Lateral sclerosis (30%)
Progressive muscular atrophy (10%)
Progressive bulbar palsy (10%)

23
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Which type of MND has the best prognosis?

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Progressive muscular atrophy

24
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Which type of MND has the worst prognosis?

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Progressive bulbar palsy

25
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Which type of MND has only LMN signs?

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Progressive motor atrophy

Anterior Horn cell lesion
Affects from distal to proximal

26
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Which type of MND has predominantly motor signs?

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Progressive Lateral Sclerosis

Loss of Betz cells in motor cortex

27
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Which type of MND affects the CN 9-12?

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Progressive Bulbar Palsy

28
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Which type of MND produces UMN and LMN signs?

A

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

29
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Cause of mixed UMN and LMN signs

A

MAST

MND
Ataxia,Friedrich’s
SCDC - B12
Taboparesis

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