Pathology

Question 1

intraventricular mass in a child

Answer 1

choroid plexus papilloma (good prognosis)

Question 2

intraventricular mass in a child

Answer 2

choroid plexus papilloma
(good prognosis)

Question 3

Answer 3

hemangioma blastoma

Question 4

Answer 4

lateral medullary syndrome

Question 5

Answer 5

ragged red fibers: Kearn Sayres, MELAS, MERRF

Question 6

Answer 6

granulomatous inflammation in CNS tuberculosis

Question 7

Answer 7

oligodendrocyte enlargement in PML

Question 8

Answer 8

dermatomyositis (perifascicular atrophy and rimmed vacuoles)

Question 9

Answer 9

Mees lines, from arsenic, other heavy metals or renal failure

Question 10

Answer 10

Normal EEG, prominent A rhythm

Question 11

Answer 11

top: neurofibrillary tangle, botton: hirano body. Alzheimer’s

Question 12

Answer 12

hutchison’s teeth, congenital syphilis

Question 13

Answer 13

neurofibrillary tangle and senile plaques, Alzheimer’s

Question 14

Answer 14

Chiari 2 (medulla is Z shaped)

Question 15

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Chiari 1, and a syrinx

Question 15

Answer 15

Wilsons disease, copper excess in caudate and putamen, sparing red nucleus

Question 16

A

Answer 16

foramen ovale, V3 (mandibular)

Question 17

B

Answer 17

foramen spinosum (middle meningeal artery)

Question 18

C

Answer 18

carotid canal, where ICA passes through petrous bone

Question 19

D

Answer 19

foramen rotundum, V2 (maxillary)

Question 20

Answer 20

pericallossal artery, terminal ACA, less superior than callosalmarginal

Question 21

Answer 21

agenesis of the corpus callosum

Question 22

Answer 22

periodic limb movements, c/w RLS

Question 23

Answer 23

R frontocentral seizure

Question 24

Answer 24

intracranial PNET, check spine for drop mets

Question 25

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Fahr’s disease; age 20-60, idiopathic or familial, many different mutations

Question 26

cause of this ICH

Answer 26

amyloid angiopathy – HTN would be deeper,

Question 27

Answer 27

periventricular heterotopia, filimin A mutation

Question 28

Answer 28

centronuclear myopathy

Question 29

Answer 29

myofibrillar myopathy

Question 30

Answer 30

congenital fiber type disproportion

Question 31

Answer 31

nemaline myopathy, long narrow faces and high arched feet

Question 32

Answer 32

granuklovacular degeneration, alzheimers

Question 33

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sarcoidosis

Question 34

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binswanger’s disease, subcortical vascular dementia

Question 35

Answer 35

open ring–demylenation

Question 36

Answer 36

dorsal column injury: b12 (cobalamin) deficiency

Question 37

Answer 37

Lewwy bodies: DLB (alpha synuclein)

Question 38

Answer 38

retinoblastoma (child with leukocoria)

Question 39

Answer 39

myxopapillary ependymoma, a grade 1 glioma of the spinal cord. tx is resection and radiation

Question 40

Answer 40

myxopappillary ependymoma, most common tumor of the conus medullaris

Question 41

Tx

Answer 41

crypto! treat CNS crypto with amphotericin and flucytosin

Question 42

Answer 42

polymyositis, inflammation is in the fasicle

Question 43

Answer 43

PKAN

Question 44

vascular territories of the cerebellum

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Question 45

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angiofibromas, tuberous sclerosis

Question 46

abscess or glioma

Answer 46

abscess–smooth inner wall, restricts on DWI

Question 47

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Oligodendroglioma. WHO 2, average survival is 10 years

Question 48

Answer 48

Mariafava-Bignami disease (an alcoholic encephalopathy)

Question 49

Answer 49

psammomatous meningioma

Question 50

Answer 50

rosenthal fibers–Alexander disease

Question 51

Answer 51

wilsons flare

Question 52

Answer 52

globus palidus, carbon monoxide poisoning

Question 53

Answer 53

vaculor myopathy from glycogen storage in Pompe’s

Question 54

Red, purple

Answer 54

red: cochear promitory, purple: tympanic segment of facial nerve

Question 55

Yellow, orange, blue

Answer 55

yellow is scutum, orange is malleus (ossicle of middle ear). Blue is tegman tympani

Question 56

Answer 56

juvenile angiofibroma, originated from sphenopalatine foramin

Question 57

Answer 57

pericallosal lipoma (dermoid cyst would be less homogenous)

Question 58

Answer 58

blue: optic canal
pink: foramen rotundum
purple: vidian canal