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Buzzwords - Year 3 > Neurology > Flashcards

Neurology Flashcards

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+ Simmond’s test

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Achilles tendon rupture

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Acute onset cognitive disturbance which fluctuates

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Delirium

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3
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‘Woody texture’ muscle swelling

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Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy

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Stepwise deterioration

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Vascular dementia

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5
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Thunderclap headache

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Subarachnoid haemorrhage

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Waiter’s top posture

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Erb’s palsy

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Bilateral sciatica and erectile dysfunction

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Cauda equina

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Raised CK

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Muscular dystrophy

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9
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Fluctuating cognitive deficit (2)

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Lewy body dementia or delirium

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Claw hand at delivery

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Klumpke’s palsy

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Inflammatory myopathy with poor response to steroids

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Inclusion body myositis

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Vivid visual hallucinations

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Lewy body dementia

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13
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Pain on loud noise

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Facial nerve palsy

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14
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Back pain worse on coughing

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Slipped disc

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Leg symptoms and midline shift

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Falcine herniation

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Mask like expression

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Parkinson’s

17
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Pleocytosis on CSF - what does this rule out?

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Bacterial meningitis

18
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Xanthochromic LP

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Subarachnoid haemorrhage

19
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Cogwheel rigidity

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Parkinson’s

20
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REM disturbance (2)

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Lewy body dementia or Parkinson’s

21
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Toe walker or positive Gower’s sign

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Muscular dystrophy

22
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Weakness and frontal balding and cataracts and ptosis (onset 30s with + Fx)

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Myotonic dystrophy

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Painful 3rd nerve palsy

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Aneurysm

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Memory and personality problems in someone with a strong CV disease history

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Vascular dementia

25
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Personality/behavioural changes and then dementia

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Frontotemporal dementia

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Myalgia and myositis and myoglobinaemia/uria - what are the complications of this?

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Rhabdomyolysis / acute renal failure or DIC

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Lucid period after head trauma (followed by sudden collapse or deterioration)

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Extradural haemorrhage

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