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14 Cards in this Set
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Whom to suspect trigeminal neuralgia |
Patients with normal findings on the head and neck examination and no neurologic deficits who have episodic, unilateral facial pain associated with nonpainful triggers |
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Bell's Palsy |
Idiopathic facial nerve parlaysis
Though to be to zoster reactivation
Lower motor neuron pattern |
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Ramsay-Hunt syndrome |
unilateral facial paralysis, a herpetiform vesicular eruption, and vestibulocochlear dysfunction |
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Bilateral facial nerve paralsysi |
Lyme disease
Also consider infectious mononucleosis |
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Whom to suspect a neoplastic cause for facial nerve paralysis |
recurrent ipsilateral facial paralysis significant pain prolonged symptoms any other concomitant cranial nerve abnormality |
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Central facial paralysis |
Forehead sparing |
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Asymmetrical sensorineural hearing loss |
Consider vestibular shcwannoma |
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Multiple sclerosis |
Demyelination of axons within the CNS
recurring episodes of neurologic symptoms that rapidly evolve during days and slowly resolve
areas of specific CNS impairment: cognition; cranial nerves; motor pathways, sensory pathways; cerebellar pathways; and bowel, bladder, and sexual dysfunction |
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Uhthoff’s phenomenon |
temporary worsening of current or preexisting signs or symptoms of MS secondary to small increases in the patient’s body temperature |
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Lumbar puncture findings in MS |
Pleocytosis Elevated CSF IgG Oligoconal bads on CSF electrophoresis |
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CN 1 -3 |
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CN 4 - 6 |
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CN 7 - 9 |
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CN 10 - 12 |
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