NRISE 2018 Flashcards
Multiple System atrophy
Blue Putamen
Effect of dystrophinopathies on sarcoglycans
Decreased
Dematiaceous Fungi (Chromomycoses)
Pigmented with melanin
Cladophialophora- neurotropic yeast (chromoblastomycosis)
Phaeohyphomyocosis- hyphae
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
Clinical: Acute, monophasic, post-URI, vaccine, M. pneumoniae, or Campylobacter
RX: steroids and IVIG
Path: Peri-venous macrophages and T-cells in white matter, perivenous zones of demyelination
Petechiae in hypothalamus, mammilary bodies and periaqueductal gray matter
Wernicke encephelopathy
Choroidal/Uveal melanoma poor prognostic features
Epitheloid morphology, mitosis, lymhpocytes, large nucleoli, tumor size, extraoccular extension, ciliary body location > choroid > iris
Variant CJD MRI
bilateral, symmetric, pulvinar/posterior thalamus, T2 hyperintenstiy
Sporadic CJD MRI
bilateral, symmetric, head of caudate and putamen, T2 hyperintensity
Holoprosencephaly
Failure of ventricular cleavage and rotation
Sudden fatal obstructive hydrocephalus
Third ventricle colloid cyst
Perinaud’s syndrome
Caused by pineal region tumors. Paralysis of upward gaze, Pseudo-Argyll Robertson pupils, convergance retraction nystagmus, eyelid retraction, conjugate down gaze
Wallenberg syndrome
Lateral medullary infracts, vertebral artery/PICA occlusion; Most common brain stem stroke
Ipsilateral cerebellars signs and cranial nerve findings
Contralateral loss of pain/temp
Hiccups
ALS
corticospinal tract degeneration
Anterograde amnesia
Cannot form new memories. Most commonly Alzheimer disease, but any bilateral disruptionof the circuit of Papez
Kernicterus
Most common cause is hemolytic disease of the newborn
Criggler Najjar: autosomal recessive inability to conjugate bilirubin
Traumatic/diffuse axonal injury
rapid acceleration-deceleration of the head
Petechiae of the parasagita WM, corpus callosum, dorsolateral brainstem
Menke’s desease
autosomal recessive, ATP7A, copper transport protein, kinky steely hair.
Copper cannot get out of enterocytes
Low serum copper and ceruloplasmin
Wilson’s disease
autosomal recessive, ATP7B, Kayser Fleischer rings, basal ganglia lesions
Copper cant be excreted from hepatocytes
Low serum copper and ceruloplasmin
Encephalomalacia
Old damage, typically ischemic
Cystic leukomalacia
periventricular WM atrophy w/wo cysts
Status Marmoratus
Firm, white basal ganglia from hypermyelination of glial scars, myelinated astrocyte processes
Ulegyria
loss of gray matter only in deeper parts of sulci, mkaing them look like mushrooms in cross-section
Porencephaly
Total focal loss of cortex and WM, making a hole from surface to ventricle, can be a developmental issue
Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
Mutations in transthyretin is most common causing sensorimotor neuropathy that starts peripherally and involves autonomic functions
Other forms invovle apolipoprotein A1 or gelsolin and have more sensory neruopathy
Pick bodies
Lots in dentate fascia granule neurons and cortical layers II and III (Tau)
Palatal myoclonus
Inferior olive lesions, symmetric jerky movements
Cerebral edema peaks at what days post infarct
2-5 days
Subdural hematomas frequently develop what as they organize?
Extramedullary hematopoiesis