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What can cause increased ICP?
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Focal lesions (bleed, tumor, seizure focus, vascular lesion, and AVM) or Generalized process (hydrocephalus)
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What is communicating hydrocephalus?
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Failure of absorption by arachnoid villi
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What is non-communicating hydrocephalus?
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Obstruction of flow at aqueduct
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What is the clinical presenation of Hydrocephalus?
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Headache, lethargy, loss of appetite/vomiting
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What can cause non-communicating hydrocephalus?
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bleeding after subarachnoid hemorrhage, traum, or intraparenchymal bleed
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What can cause communicating hydrocephalus?
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meningitis scarring of arachnoid villi, meningeal tumor
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What vessel supplies the basal ganglia and internal capsule?
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MCA penetrating vessels
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How does the breakdown of the BBB show up on CT?
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enhancing lesions (ring enhancing lesion)
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What are the ring enhancing lesions?
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meningioma, abscess, glioma, resolving infarction, resolving contusion, demylinating dx, resolving hematoma, lymphona (MAGIC DR L)
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