Neurology Flashcards
+ Simmond’s test
Achilles tendon rupture
Acute onset cognitive disturbance which fluctuates
Delirium
‘Woody texture’ muscle swelling
Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy
Stepwise deterioration
Vascular dementia
Thunderclap headache
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Waiter’s top posture
Erb’s palsy
Bilateral sciatica and erectile dysfunction
Cauda equina
Raised CK
Muscular dystrophy
Fluctuating cognitive deficit (2)
Lewy body dementia or delirium
Claw hand at delivery
Klumpke’s palsy
Inflammatory myopathy with poor response to steroids
Inclusion body myositis
Vivid visual hallucinations
Lewy body dementia
Pain on loud noise
Facial nerve palsy
Back pain worse on coughing
Slipped disc
Leg symptoms and midline shift
Falcine herniation
Mask like expression
Parkinson’s
Pleocytosis on CSF - what does this rule out?
Bacterial meningitis
Xanthochromic LP
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Cogwheel rigidity
Parkinson’s
REM disturbance (2)
Lewy body dementia or Parkinson’s
Toe walker or positive Gower’s sign
Muscular dystrophy
Weakness and frontal balding and cataracts and ptosis (onset 30s with + Fx)
Myotonic dystrophy
Painful 3rd nerve palsy
Aneurysm
Memory and personality problems in someone with a strong CV disease history
Vascular dementia
Personality/behavioural changes and then dementia
Frontotemporal dementia
Myalgia and myositis and myoglobinaemia/uria - what are the complications of this?
Rhabdomyolysis / acute renal failure or DIC
Lucid period after head trauma (followed by sudden collapse or deterioration)
Extradural haemorrhage
