Neuro-oncology — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ aphasia, which is seen with lesions in the angular gyrus.

Answer: Anomic

Extra: Anomic aphasia (the most common type of aphasia) is characterized by a specific difficulty in naming objects (anomia), while fluency, comprehension, and repetition remain intact. It is classically associated with lesions in the angular gyrus, though it can occur with various localized or diffuse brain injuries.

Flashcard 2: Pantothenate Kinase Associated Neurodegeneration (PKAN)/Neurodegeneration with brain _____ accumulation (NBIA) is also called as Hallervorden-Spatz disease

Answer: iron

Flashcard 3: _____ aneurysms located in the lenticulostriate vessels of the basal ganglia are commonly associated with hypertension

Answer: Charcot-Bouchard

Flashcard 4: What should be excluded in all cases of parosmia?_____

Answer: Intracranial tumor

Flashcard 5: _____ constitutes 80% of all cerebellopontine angle tumors and 10% of all the brain tumors.

Answer: Acoustic neuroma

Flashcard 6: Therapeutic _____-ventilation may be used to treat acute cerebral edema unresponsive to other interventions

Answer: hyper

Flashcard 7: The predominant clinical features of MSA-C are due to _____ dysfunction

Answer: cerebellar

Flashcard 8: Optic nerve glioma (15–40%), a pilocytic astrocytoma, is commonly seen in _____

Answer: neurofibromatosis type 1

Flashcard 9: _____ nerve marked as "D" is involved in Frey's syndrome

Answer: Auriculotemporal

Flashcard 10: What disease is associated with this spinal cord lesion?\n_____

Answer: Subacute combined degeneration (B12 deficiency)