PBL 1 Flashcards
1
Q
What would be the resulting symptoms of compression of the C8 nerve root?
A
Pain or weakness in the medial two fingers on the ipsilateral side
2
Q
What is Horner’s syndrome?
A
A combination of symptoms that arises from a sympathetic trunk lesion on the ipsilateral side
3
Q
What are the clinical features of Horner’s syndrome?
A
- unilateral miosis
- partial ptosis
- anhidrosis
- enophthalmos
4
Q
What is miosis
A
constricted pupil
5
Q
what is ptosis
A
drooping eyelid
6
Q
what is anhidrosis
A
loss of sweating
7
Q
what is enophthalmos
A
posterior displacement of eyeball within the orbit
8
Q
What is a pancoast tumour?
A
Type of lung cancer characterised by a malignant tumour of the superior sulcus (first rib)/apices of the lung with destructive lesions of the thoracic inlet
9
Q
What symptoms can result from a pancoast tumour?
A
- Severe shoulder pain radiating towads the axilla and scapula along the ulnar aspect of the hand
- atrophy of the hand and arm muscles
- compression of blood vessels, causing oedema and swelling
- Horner’s syndrome
