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Neurology Flashcards

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Thunderclap headache?

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Subarachnoid harmorrhage

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2
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Xanthochromic lumbar puncture?

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Subarachnoid haemorrage

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Lucid period after head trauma (often followed by sudden collapse or deterioration)?

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Extradural haemorrhage

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4
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Cogwheel rigidity?

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Parkinon’s (spasticity over rigidity)

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5
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Woody texture muscle swelling?

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Duchenne or Becker MD

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6
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Raised CK?

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Muscular dystrophy

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Toe walker or positive gowers sign?

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Muscular dystrophy

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Mask-like expression?

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Parkinson’s

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9
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Fluctuating cognitive deficit?

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Lewi body dementia or parkinson disease

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10
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REM disturbance?

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Lewi body dementia or parkinson disease

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Vivid visual hallucinations normally of children and not threatening?

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Lewi body dementia

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“Acute onset” cognitive disturbance that fluctuates?

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Delirium

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Personality/ behaviour changes and then dementia?

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Frontotemporal dementia (Pick’s disease)

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Memory and personality problems in someone with a history of CV disease?

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Vascular dementia

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15
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Pain on loud noise?

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Facial nerve palsy

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16
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Painful third nerve palsy?

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Aneurysm

17
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Myalgia and myositis and myoglobulinaemia/uria?

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Rhabdomyolysis

18
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Inflammatory myopathy with poor response to steroids?

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Inclusion body myositis

19
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Weakness + frontal balding + cataracts + ptosis?

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Myotonic dystrophy

20
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Leg symptoms + midline shift?

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Falcine herniation

21
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Back pain worse on coughing?

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Slipped disk

22
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Headache worse on coughing?

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Posterior fossa issue

23
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Sciatica + male sexual dysfunction?

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Cauda equina syndrome

24
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Pleocytosis on CSF?

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Rules out bacterial menignitis

25
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Migraine prophylaxis 1st line? (3)

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Propranolol, topirmate or amitryptyline

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Migraine prophylaxis 2nd line? (4)

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Valproate, pizotifen, gabapentin, pregabalin

27
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Injury to upper brachial plexus?

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Erb’s palsy (waiters tip)

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Injury to lower brachial plexus?

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Klumpke’s palsy (claw hand)

29
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Positive simmond’s test?

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Achilles tendon rupture

30
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Purely motor symptoms (UMN and LMN) with ocular sparing?

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Motor neurone disease

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