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27 Cards in this Set
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2 surgically repaired skull fractures
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depressed and open
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on glascow coma scale what is a coma
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8
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raccoons eyes
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crack in anterior fossa
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most common caue of SAH
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trauma!
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pseudoaneurysm
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SAH days after an injury
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another cause of man in barrel
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cervial extension in elderly
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jumped facets is a classic hallmark of
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cervical distraction injury
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most easily crushed segment
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L1
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medial compression of brain impinges on
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ACA
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damage to this midline structure causes post concussive mood disorders
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sub-genu cortex in frontal lobe
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type of fracture producing little ieces of bone
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comminuted fracture
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cerebral edema causes
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blunting of gyri, narrowing of suci
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brain can accomodate ___ cc of swelling
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100
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there will be a lucid period then rapid deteroiration
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epidural hemorrhage
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vasospasm in epidural hemm?
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no
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when arachnoid granulations are blocked with blood
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normal pressure hydrocephalus
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hemm with very slow decline in function
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sub dural
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herniation- both hemispheres swell symetrically...mamillaries end up in posterior fossa
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central herniation
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herniation- from a mass lesion affecting one hemisphere...pushes the cingulare gyrus into the wrong hemisphere and caudate nucleus is also displaced
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cingular/subfalcine herniation
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herniation-can produce traction on the ACA and the cingulate gyrus can become infarted
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cingular/subfalcine
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herniation-loss of motor function because these peduncles are compressed
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uncal/subtentorial
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herniation- cn III gives a palsy
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uncal/subtentorial
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herniation - PCA gets infarcted
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uncal/subtentorial
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herniation- duret hemorrhages (sheared branches of basilar artery)
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tonsillar
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brain has died and CSF takes up space
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ex vacuo
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abnormalities caused by intracranial pressure
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ulcers and cardiac
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histo of diffuse axonal injury
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spheroid structures
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