CNS trauma US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
Master CNS trauma with OnCourse flashcards. These spaced repetition flashcards are designed for medical students preparing for NEET PG, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, MBBS exams, and other medical licensing examinations.
CNS trauma Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: What disease is associated with this spinal cord lesion? _____
Answer: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Flashcard 2: _____ is a trinucleotide repeat disorder that causes degeneration of the cerebellum and multiple spinal cord tracts
Answer: Friedreich ataxia
Flashcard 3: Microglia are activated in response to _____
Answer: tissue damage
Flashcard 4: What type necrosis is seen with brain infarcts and abscess? _____
Answer: Liquefactive necrosis
Flashcard 5: Amyloid angiopathy increases risk for intracranial _____
Answer: hemorrhage
Flashcard 6: On imaging, patients with Diffuse Axonal Injury will show multiple _____ at grey-white matter junctions
Answer: punctate hemorrhages
Flashcard 7: Which vascular layer do saccular (berry) aneurysms lack?_____
Answer: Tunica Media
Flashcard 8: What is the term for infarcted tissue in the basal ganglia or internal capsule caused by occlusion of a lenticulostriate artery?
Answer: lacunar infarct
Flashcard 9: epidural hematoma
Answer: rupture of middle meningeal artery; fracture of temporal bone
Extra: rapid arterial bleeding lucid interval followed by decreased LOC; CN 3 palsy, increased ICP CT: biconvex, hyperdense blood; does not cross sutures; may cross falx, tentorium
Flashcard 10: central pontine myelinolysis
Answer: often iatrogenic; caused by rapid correction of hyponatremia
Extra: massive axonal demyelination of pontine white matter tracts acute paralysis, dysarthria, dysphagia, diplopia, loss of consciousness; +/- locked-in syndrome T2 MRI: increased signal in central pons
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