Neurology Flashcards
thunderclap headache
SAH (cf. PCKD)
xanthochromic lumber puncture
fresh blood
SAH
traumatic tap
lucid period after head trauma usually followed by sudden collapse or deterioration
extradural haemorrhage
cogwheel rigidity
parksinons (spasticity over rigidity)
woody texture muscle swelling
DMD or BMD
raised CK
MD
toe walking or positive gowers sign
muscular dystrophy
mask like expression
parkinsons
fluctuating cognitive deficit
lewy body or delirium
REM disturbance
lewy body or PD
vivid hallucinations of normally children and not threatening
lewy body
acute onset cognitive disturbance that fluctuates
delirium
personality/behaviour change and then dementia
frontotemporal dementia (Picks disease)
memory and personality problems in someone with a history of cvd disease
vascular dementia
step wise deterioration
vascular dementia
pain on loud noise
facial nerve palsy
painful third nerve palsy
aneurysm
myalgia and myositis and mygllobinaemia/uria
rhadbo (DIC and renal failure)
inflam myopathy with poor response to steroids
inclusion body myosisit
weakness and frontal balding and cataracts and ptosis
myotonic dystrophy (onset 30d with FH)
leg symptoms and midline shift
falcine herniation
back pain worse on coughing
slipped disc
headache worse on coughing
posterior fossa issue
BL sciatica and male sexual dysfunction
cauda equina
pleocytosis on CSF
rules out bacterial meningitis
migraine prophylaxis treatment
1st line propanolol/topiramate /amitriptylline
2nd line valproate/ pizotifen/ gabapentin/ pregabalin
if one drug doesn’t work by 3m try another
what upper brachial plexus injury is more common
erbs palsy (waiters tip) - associated with shoulder dystocia I
lower brachial plexus injury
klumpkes - claw hand
positive simmonds test
achilles tendon rupture
