Neurology — Flashcards

_____ beriberi is characterized by polyneuritis and symmetrical muscle wasting

Carpal tunnel syndrome is associated with - _____ (due to edema)- rheumatoid arthritis- hypothyroidism- diabetes mellitus- acromegaly- dialysis-related amyloidosis. It may also be associated with repetitive use

Hint: reproductive circumstance

_____ strokes most commonly involve the lenticulostriate vessels, resulting in small cystic areas of infarction

Tabes dorsalis patients present with the "three P's": _____, pain, and polyuria (incontinence)

_____ syndrome is characterized by cortical blindness with confabulation

One complication of synkinesis (abnormal nerve regeneration) after facial nerve palsy recovery is Crocodile tear syndrome that occurs during eating, due to a rewiring from the _____ gland to tear glands

Internuclear ophthalmoplegia occurs due to lesion in the _____ of the opposite side of the aBducting eye

Strokes involving the _____ cerebral artery may cause paralysis and sensory loss of the contra-lateral lower limb

_____ syndrome results from basilar artery stroke

Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results in inability to _____ the ipsi-lateral eye