Neurology Flashcards
Thunderclap headache
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Xanthochromic lumbar puncture
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Lucid period after head trauma (often followed by sudden collapse or deterioration)
Extra-Dural haemorrhage
Cogwheel rigidity
Parkinson’s
“Woody texture” muscle swelling
Duchenne or Becker MD
Raised CK
Muscular dystrophy
Toe walker or positive gower’s sign
Muscular dystrophy
“Mask like” expression
Parkinson’s
Fluctuating cognitive deficit
Lewy body dementia or delirium
R.E.M. Disturbance (late at night)
Lewy body dementia or PD
Vivid visual hallucinations, usually non-threatening and of children
Lewy body dementia
Acute onset fluctuating cognitive disturbance
Delirium
Personality/behaviour changes then dementia
Fronto-temporal dementia (Pick’s disease)
Memory & personality problems in someone with CVS disease
Vascular dementia
Pain on loud noise
Facial nerve palsy
Stepwise deterioration
Vascular dementia
Painful third nerve palsy
Aneurysm
Myalgia
Myositis
Myoglobulinaemia/uria
Rhabdomyolysis
DIC and renal failure
Inflammatory myopathy with poor response to steroids
Inclusion body myositis
Weakness
Frontal balding
Cataracts
Ptosis
Myotonic dystrophy
Leg symptoms
Midline shift
Falcons herniation
Back pain worse on coughing
Slipped disc
Headache worse on coughing
Posterior fossa issue
BL sciatica
Male sexual dysfunction
+/- bowel and bladder symptoms
Cauda equina syndrome
Pleocytosis on CSF - rule out?
Bacterial meningitis
1st line migraine prophylaxis
Propanolol
Topiramate
Amitryptilline
2nd line migraine prophylaxis
Valproate Pizotifen Gabapentin Pregabalin (Try new drug after 4 months)
Waiter’s tip
Injury to upper brachial plexus - Erb’s palsy
Claw hand
Injury to lower brachial plexus - Klumpke’s palsy
Positive simmond’s test
Achilles’ tendon rupture
Anti-acetylcholine (nicotinic) receptor antibody
Myaesthenia gravis
Purely motor symptoms with ocular sparing
Motor neurone disease
Raccoon/panda eyes
Anterior cranial fossa fracture
