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What area of the brain would give these symptoms if a lesion was present:
Contralateral weakness or sensory change
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| Patient comes in with mentation changes, language dysfunction, visual field changes and epileptic seizures what would you suspect the area of lesion? |
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| What is the clinical name for necrosis because of lack of oxygen at the cerebral hemisphere level? |
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| Bleeding the in cerebral hemisphere is called? |
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| A tumor(neoplasm) of the cerebral hemisphere is called what? |
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| A patient comes in with gait ataxia. They have no pain or weakness in the limbs. It is found that there is a vascular lesion. What would the lesion be called? |
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| Cerebellar infarction (at the cerebellum) |
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| What is a demyelination lesion of the cerebellum? |
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| If atrophy of the muscle is found during physical examination, where is the nerve most likely damaged? |
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| If during a physical examination you find the person being hyper reflexive (possibly with clonus) where would you suspect a lesion? |
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| What area of the nervous system can show ipsilateral, contralateral or bilateral signs/symptoms? |
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| What area of the nervous system is Wallenberg syndrom associated with? |
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| brainstem (specifically the medulla) |
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| A patient comes in with a loss of function below the belly button, there is no pain involved. Where would the lesion most likely take place? |
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| Patient shows signs of weakness, faciculations, atrophy but no sensory symptoms, where would the lesion be? |
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| Brown-Sequard syndrome is associated with what nervous system part? |
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| Spinal cord, caused by lateral hemisection (cutting), trauma |
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| Tabetic syndrome is associated with what? |
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| infection of the spinal cord |
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| Syringomyelia is an anatomic lesion of what structure? |
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| What are the symptoms of radiculopathy usually associated with? |
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| severe pain in one limb, with weakness AND sensory changes with the distribution of ONE root |
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| What are the symptoms of plexopathy? |
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| Weakness, possibly sensory loss and pain in one limb with disruption of MULTIPLE roots |
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| Herniated disk could cause compression causing what? |
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| What is an infection that could cause radiculopathy? |
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| Saturday night palsy is a type of what neuropathy? |
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| Thoracic outlet syndrome is an example of a possible what neuropathy? |
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| plexopathy (apical tumor of lung compressing brachial plexus) |
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| Injury to a single nerve is called what neropathy, and what could the symptoms be? |
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| sensory loss, pain and/or paresthesias and weakness in the involved nerve distribution |
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| Carpal tunnel syndrome is an example of what type of neropathy? |
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| Meralgia paresthetica is an example of what neropathy? |
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| Tardy ulnar palsy is an example of what neropathy? |
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| Polio effects what area of the nervous system? |
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| What type of neuropathy is associated with diabetes melitus? |
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| Symmetric peripheral polyneuropathy |
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| If a patient presented with primarily distal sensory loss and distal paresthesias with occasional distal weakness what type of neuropathy would you suspect? |
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| Symmetric peripheral polyneropathy |
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| A patient comes in with vasculitic neuropathy what type of neuropathy is this associated with? |
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| A patients symptoms are sensory loss and weakness in the distribution of the involved nerves in various limbs, what neuropathy does he have most likely? |
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| A patient has had sensory loss and weakness for a long time and is now just coming to see you (a year). The symptoms look fairly symmetric, what neuropathy/ies could this be? |
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| mononeuropathy multiplex or symmetric peripheral polyneuropathy |
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| A patient has sensory loss, possible pain and or parethesias and weakness. They present with trouble swallowing and binocular diplopia, what neuropathy is present? |
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| cranial neuropathy (CN's III, IV, and/or VI involved) |
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| Bell's palsy and trigeminal neuralgia are examples of what neuropathy? |
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| A patient has weakness of their biceps brachii. There is no pain or sensory loss. Where is the most likely place of the leasion? |
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| A patient with myasthenia gravis has a problem at what part of the nervous system? |
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| A patient with Lamber-Eaton disease has a problem with what area of the nervous system? |
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| A patient shows weaknes in a muscle with diffuse pain and inflamation, where is the lesion? |
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| Polymyositis and nuscular dystrophy are diseases of what? |
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| Disease of the cerebral hemispheres are called? |
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| Disease of the spinal cord is call what? |
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| Disease of the muscle is called? |
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| Pain the in distribution of a nerve or nerve root is called? |
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| Functional disturbance or pathologic change of one or more pheripheral nerves is called? |
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| an unpleasant subjective sensory experience associated with or described in terms of actual or potential tissue damage |
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| What is the spontaneous abnormal sensations that the patient experiences in the absence of specific stimulation? |
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| What is a disease of the plexus? |
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| disease of the nerve root |
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| A patient comes in with mild diminished sensation on the entire left side of the body. (They can still feel some, just not as well as before) There is some mild, transient weakness of the muscles. The patient is in no discomfort. Whats a likely cause of the symptoms? |
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| Where does a lacunar stroke effect? |
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| What is the literal meaning of lacuna? |
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