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13 Cards in this Set
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Unilateral, severe periorbital headache with tearing and conjunctival erythema |
Cluster headache
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Prophylactic treatment for migraine
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Antihypertensives, antidepressants, anticonvulsants
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The most common pituitary tumor. Treatment?
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Prolactinoma. Dopamine agonists (e.g. bromocriptine)
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A 55-year-old patient presents with "broken speech" What type of aphasia? What lobe and vascular distribution?
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Broca's aphasia. Frontal lobe, left MCA distribution
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The most common cause of SAH?
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Trauma; the second most common is berry aneurysm
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A cresent-shaped hyperdensity on CT that does not cross the midline?
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Subdural hematoma- bridging veins torn
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A history significant for initial altered mental status with an intervening lucid interval. Diagnosis? Most likely source? Treatment?
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Epidural hematoma. Middle meningeal artery. Neurosurgical evacuation
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CSF findings with SAH?
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Elevated ICP, RBCs, xanthochromia
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Albuminocytologic dissociation
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Guillain-Barre syndrome (↑ protein CSF without a significant ↑ in cell count)
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Cold water is flushed into a patient's ear, an the fast phase of the nystagmus is toward the opposite side. Normal or pathologic?
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Normal
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Th most common 1 sources of metastases tothe brain?
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Lung, breast, skin (melanoma), kidney GI tract
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May be seen in children who are accused of inattention in class and confused with ADHD?
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Absence seizures
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The most frequent presentation of intracranial neoplasm?
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Headache
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