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optic atrophy

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Multiple Sclerosis
Compression (tumour/aneurysm)
Glaucoma

Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy
Toxic Ambylopia (lead, alcohol)
Nutritional Ambylopia (Vit B12 def)
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Spastic Paraparesis

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Multiple Sclerosis
Tumour causing cord compression
Trauma
Birth injury
MND
Parasagittal Meningioma
Ant. Spinal artery thrombosis
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Parietal Lobe signs

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Agnosis
Apraxia
Dysgraphia
Dyslexia
Dyscalculia
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Things to assess in hemiplegia/stroke

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Concious level
Speech
Motor
Sensory
Visual
Swallow
Sitting balance
Standing
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Ocular Palsies

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III Down and out
IV Adducted eye cannot look down–stairs
VI L or R

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Ocular Palsy

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PCA
Mononeuitis Multiplex
Demyelination
Raised ICP (VI)
Neoplasm
Diabetes
Brainstem vascular lesions
Subacute meningitis
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Mononeuritis Multiplex

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SLE
Wegner’s
Rheumatoid
Sarcoid
Amyloid
Sarcoid
Lyme
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Subacute Meningitis

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Lymphoma
Carcinomatous
Fungal

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MND

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Progressive Muscle Atrophy
Amyotrophic Latertal Sclerosis
Progessive Bulbar Palsy

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Causes of fasciculation

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Cervical Spondylosis
Syringomyelia
Thyrotoxic Myopathy
Charcot-Marie tooth disease

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Homonymous Hemianopia

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Stroke

Tumour

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Tunnel Vision

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Glaucoma
Retinitis Pigmentosa
Chorioretinitis

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Bitemporal Hemianopia

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Pituitary tumour
Craniopharyngioma
Suprasellar Meningioma
Aneurysm

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Central Scotoma

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MS
Ischaemia
Toxins
Nutritional

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Cerebellar Syndrome

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MS
Brain Stem Vascular
Posterior Fossa Lesion
Paraneoplastic syndrome
Alcohol
Cerebellar Degenerative Syndromes assoc with heriditary ataxia
Phenytoin
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Peripheral Neuropathy

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Alcohol
B12
Chronic renal disease
Cancer
Diabetes
Every Vasculitis

Charcot Marie Tooth
Lyme Disease

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Parkinsons symtoms

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TRAP

Tremor
Rigidity
Akinesia/Bradykinesia
Postural instability

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Causes of Parkinsonism

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Idiopathic PD
Drug Induced
Post encephalitic
Atherosclerotic
Normal pressure hydrocephalu
Steele-richardson
Shy-drager syndrome
LBD
Alzheimer’s disease
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Causes of unilateral optic atrophy and papilloedema

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Foster Kennedy Syndrome

Tumour pressing on optic nerve causin optic atrophy and raised ICP (often a frontal meningioma)

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Dystrophia Myotonica

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Myopathic face
Temporal muscle wasting
Frontal balding
Cataracts
Delayed hand grip
Cardiomyopathy
Cognitive impairment
Slurred speech
Diabetes mellitus
Testicular atrophy
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Wasting of Small muscles of the hand (bilateral)

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This is common and usually benign

MND
Cervical spondylosis
Tumour C8,T1
Syringomyelia
Increasing age
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Wasting of Small muscles of the hand (unilateral)

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Not normal. This is a red flag.

C8,T1 Root lesion
Cervical rib
Pancoast’s tumour
Trauma to brachial plexus
Combined median, ulnar nerve
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Papilloedema

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Intracranial SOL (tumour, abscess, haematoma)
Accelerated Hypertension
Benign intracranial hypertension

Meningitis
Hyercapnia
Central retinal vein thrombosis
Cavernous sinus thrombosis

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Nystagmus

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Ipsilatral Cerebellar
Contralateral vestibular lesion
Intranuclear opthalmoplegia
Physiological

25
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Vestibular Causes of Nystagmus

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Meniere’s Disease
Acoustic Neuroma
Labyrinthitis

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Symptoms of Horners

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Miosis Enophthalmos
Ptosis
Anhydrosis

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Causes of Horners

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Neck surgery
Carotid Aneurysm
Brain stem vascular
Pancoast’s
Enlarged cervical LN
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dysarthria

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Cerebellar
Pseudobulbar palsy
Bulbar palsy
Dystrophica myotonica
Myasthenia gravis
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Psuedobulbar palsy

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UMN disorder of lower cranial nerves

Cerebrovascular disease
MS
MND
Brainstem infiltrative disease

30
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Bulbar Palsy

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LMN lesion of lower cranial nerves

MND
Syringobulbia
GBS
Polio

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Cervical Myelopathy

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UMN in four limbs

Sensory loss in hands

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Causes of unilateral LMN lesion of CN7

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Bell’s palsy
Ramsay Hunt
CP Angle lesion
Parotid lesion
Mononeurits Multiplex
Trauma
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Causes of bilateral LMN lesion of CN7

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GBS
Sarcoidosis
Myastenia Gravis
Lyme Disease

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Choreoathetosis

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Sydenham’s Chorea
Huntington’s Chorea
Drug induced
Stroke
Intracerebral tumours
35
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Proximal Myopathy

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Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Cushings
Thyrotoxicosis
Polymyositis
Dermatomyositis
Carcinomatous
Osteomalacia
Drugs
Renal Failure
drugs
Steroids
Alcohol
Amiodarone
B blockers
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Causes of Carpal Tunnel

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Rheumatoid Arthritis
Hypothyroidism
Acromegaly
Pregnancy
OCP
Amylodosis
Idiopathic
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Ulnar nerve palsy

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Fracture dslocation of elbow
OA elbow
Mononeuritis multiplex
RSI

38
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Radial nerve palsy features

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Wrist drop

Saturday Night Palsy

39
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Features of common peroneal nerve palsy

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Foot drop
Cannot stand on heel

Head of fibula

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