neurology

Question 1

thunderclap headache

Answer 1

SAH

Question 2

xanthochromic LP

Answer 2

SAH

Question 3

lucid period after head trauma

Answer 3

extradural hemorrhage

Question 4

woody muscle swelling

Answer 4

duchenne or becker MD

Question 5

toe walker or +ve gowers sign

Answer 5

MD

Question 6

fluctuating cognitive deficit

Answer 6

LB Dementia or delirium

Question 7

REM disturbance

Answer 7

LB dementia or PD

Question 8

non threatening visual hallucinations

Answer 8

lewey body dementia

Question 9

personality change then dementia

Answer 9

Pick’s disease/FT dementia

Question 10

stepwise deterioration

Answer 10

vascular dementia

Question 11

pain on loud noise

Answer 11

facial nerve palsy

Question 12

myalgia + myositis + myoglobinaemia/uria

Answer 12

rhabdomyolysis - DIC and renal failure

Question 13

weakness + frontal balding + cataracts _ ptosis

Answer 13

myotonic dystrophy

Question 14

painful third nerve palsy

Answer 14

aneurysm

Question 15

leg sx + midline shift

Answer 15

falcine herniation

Question 16

back pain worse on coughing

Answer 16

slipped disc

Question 17

headache worse on coughing

Answer 17

posterior fossa issue

Question 18

migrane prophylaxis

Answer 18

propanalol, amitryptiline, topiramate

valporate, gabapentin, pregabalin, pizotifen

( try drug for 3/12)

Question 19

upper brachial plexus injury

Answer 19

erb’s palsy - waiters tip

Question 20

lower brachial plexus injury

Answer 20

klumpkes palsy - claw hand