PRELIMS: Reviewer Flashcards
You explained to your clinical supervisor that your patient has an entrapment of the median nerve at the Ligament of Struthers based on:
a. Numbness at the volar aspect of the
lateral 3 ½ digits
b. Weakness of the thenar muscles
c. Negative Phalen’s test
c. Negative Phalen’s test
Found in 60% of patients with small cell cancer of the lungs
Eaton Lambert Syndrome
Toxic agent causing Lathyrism:
a. BOAA
b. BPA
c. BOOA
d. BOAA
d. BOAA
Froment’s sign indicates involvement of:
a. Median nerve
b. Radial nerve
c. Ulnar nerve
c. Ulnar nerve
Tremors in Parkinson’s are described as:
a. Resting tremor
b. Intention tremor
c. Pill-rolling tremor
c. Pill-rolling tremor
Medications for neuropathic pain in Diabetes Mellitus include:
a. Antidepressants
b. Anticonvulsants
c. Topical agents
d. ALL
d. ALL
Muscle weakness in Myasthenia Gravis includes:
a. Fluctuating weakness
b. Weakness that worsens with activity
c. Ocular muscle involvement
d. ALL
d. ALL
Cognitive function most affected in Multiple Sclerosis:
a. Language
b. Attention
c. Memory
c. Memory
Features associated with Devic type of Multiple Sclerosis:
a. Neither
b. Myelitis
c. Both
b. Myelitis
Not recommended in the early stages of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis:
a. Range of motion exercises
b. Strenuous exercises
c. Breathing exercises
b. Strenuous exercises
Paralysis of both nicotinic and muscarinic cholinergic transmission on presynaptic terminals is seen in:
a. Spinal Cord Syndrome
b. Botulism
c. Eaton Lambert Syndrome
b. Botulism
Canal paralysis excludes:
a. Loss of taste
b. Facial paralysis
c. Hearing loss
c. Hearing loss
Plasmapheresis is recommended for:
a. Myasthenia Gravis
b. Guillain-Barré Syndrome
c. Both
c. Both
Cycling may help in the management of tremors in:
a. Parkinson’s disease
b. Huntington’s disease
c. Parkinson’s disease
c. Parkinson’s disease
Most severely affected muscles in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease:
a. Distal muscles of the feet
b. Lower leg muscles
c. Hand muscles
d. ALL
d. ALL
Management in early stages of Phase I ALS excludes:
a. Light exercises
b. Splinting
c. Breathing exercises
b. Splinting
True of Paralytic polio:
a. Atrophy of muscles is reversible
b. Atrophy of muscles is permanent
c. Spasticity is common
b. Atrophy of muscles is permanent
Primary treatment for Alcoholic Neuropathy:
a. Pain management
b. Physical therapy
c. Cessation of alcohol
c. Cessation of alcohol
Negative phenomenon in Parkinson’s disease:
a. Tremor
b. Freezing phenomenon
c. Rigidity
b. Freezing phenomenon
Hallmark sign of Tourette Syndrome:
a. Seizures
b. Muscle spasms
c. Tics
c. Tics
Nerve commonly used for biopsy:
a. Median
b. Ulnar
c. Sural
c. Sural
Findings in favor of polio:
a. Symmetric weakness
b. Patchy asymmetric weakness
c. Spasticity
b. Patchy asymmetric weakness
Presumptive diagnosis of Parkinson’s is based on:
a. Seizures
b. Tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia
c. Spasticity
b. Tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia
Inaccessible to CT scan for imaging:
a. Posterior fossa
b. Spine
c. Frontal lobes
a. Posterior fossa
Dystonia-Parkinsonism of Lubag is inherited as:
a. Autosomal dominant
b. X-linked recessive trait
c. Neither
b. X-linked recessive trait
Medication inhibiting glutamate release and considered neuroprotective:
a. Baclofen
b. Riluzole
c. Gabapentin
b. Riluzole
Drug of choice for Bell’s Palsy:
a. Antivirals
b. NSAIDs
c. Corticosteroids
c. Corticosteroids
Test to validate a seizure:
a. CT scan
b. Electroencephalogram
c. MRI
b. Electroencephalogram
Hallmark of Post-polio Syndrome:
a. Sensory loss
b. New weakness
c. Hyperreflexia
b. New weakness
Suspected brain tumor imaging:
a. CT scan
b. MRI
c. X-ray
b. MRI