“thunderclap headache”
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Kidney disease that can cause subarachnoid haemorrhage
Polycystic kidney disease
Xanthochromic CSF on lumbar puncture
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Lucid period after head trauma with subsequent collapse/deterioration
Extradural haemorrhage
Cogwheeling
Tremor + rigidity seen in Parkinson’s disease
“Woody” muscle swelling
Duchenne/Becker MD
Fluctuating cognitive deficit with hallucinations
Lewy body dementia
Delirium
Personality/behavioural changes and then dementia
Frontotemporal dementia (Pick’s disease)
Stepwise progression of dementia in someone with a history of CVD
Vascular dementia
Which arterial aneurysm causes a painful CN III palsy?
Posterior communicating artery
Myalgia + myositis + myoglobulinaemia = ?
Rhabdomyolysis
Which muscular dystrophy involves weakness, frontal balding, cataracts and ptosis?
Myotonic dystrophy
Midline brain herniation with leg symptoms
Falcine herniation
1st line Rx for migraine prophylaxis
Propranolol/topiramate/amitriptyline
Nerve roots for Erb’s palsy
C5, C6
Nerve roots for Klumpke’s palsy
C8, T1
Waiter’s tip posture
Erb’s palsy
+ve Simmond’s test
Achilles tendon rupture
Racoon/panda eyes
Anterior cranial fossa fracture
Battle sign
Middle cranial fossa fracture
Diarrhoea with subsequent weakness
Guillan-Barré
assoc. with Campylobacter