Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery - part 1 potx

... Ludwigsburg Printed in Germany by Offizin Andersen Nexö, Leipzig ISBN 3 -1 3 -1 16 15 1- 5 (GTV) ISBN 0-8 657 7-8 3 0-2 (TNY) 1 2 3 4 5 6 Important Note: Medicine is an ever- changing science undergoing continual development. ... A. Differential diagnosis in neurosurgery / Sotirios A. Tsementzis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 3 -1 3 -1 1...

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... eye and vice versa, with each stimulus lasting approximately one second and two to three seconds being left in be- Neuro-Ophthalmology Tsementzis, Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery ... (Mydriasis) Local mydriatic and cy- cloplegic drug agents Phenylephrine, epinephrine Cocaine Hydroxyamphetamine Atropine, homatropine, eucatropine Scopolamine Cyclopentola...

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... sinus sigmoid sinus meningeal artery foramen spino- sum pituary gland Fig. 11 Intracranial tumors. Anatomic drawing depicting the endocranial aspect of the skull base Skull Base (Figs. 11 and 12 ) Anterior ... magnum and compression of the spinal cord and lower medulla. Focal myelinolysis is indicated by a high inten- sity signal. Intracranial Tumors Tsementzis, Differential Diagn...

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... hemorrhagic infarction, in- tracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhages, venous sinus and cortical vein thrombosis. The overall inci- dence of stroke in sickle-cell disease is 6 – 15 %. – Paroxysmal noc- turnal ... following. Demyelinating Disease and Brain Atrophy Tsementzis, Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery © 2000 Thieme All rights reserved. Usage sub...

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... hypointensity (dark) in T1-weighted images and hyper- intensity (white) in T2-weighted images Small artery thrombosis Systemic hyperten- sion, diabetes, poly- cythemia Fluctuating, progres- sive and remitting, manifested ... license. 18 8 of gadolinium diethylene-triamine-penta-acetic acid (Gd-DTPA) en- hancement further increases the diagnostic accuracy from 89% to 96%. Overall sagi...

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... of spinal meningiomas are purely intra- dural, and the remaining 7 – 10 % may be extradural. Among the spinal meningiomas, 17 % are in the cervi- cal spine, 75 – 81% in the thoracic spine and 2 ... onset ț Pain when sitting ț Improvement with standing and walk- ing ț Gradual-onset pain when walking and/ or standing ț Improvement with sitting Physical findings ț Free hip movements...

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... cis- terns, and demyelination of transverse pontine fibers. A reduction in dopamine has been found in 53% of cases in the puta- men, 35% in the caudate, and 31% in the nucleus accumbens. Mito- chondrial ... abnormal two-point discrimination. Weakness affects the first dorsal interosseous muscle first and most severely. Weakness and wasting of the hypothenar and in- trins...

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... pathological findings in the brain are also non- specific for arboviral infection. The diagnosis of arboviral infec- tions is made serologically (hemagglutination inhibition, neutralizing antibodies, and ... sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) SSPE is a chronic measles infection in children be- tween 5 and 15 years and in young adults. The brain shows diffuse and widespread inf...

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... adults 13 6 foramen magnum 11 9 – 22 gliomatosis cerebri 13 1 hyperprolactinemia 14 2 internal auditory meatus 11 9 intraventricular 11 2 – 13 malignant glioma recur- rence 13 2–3 pineal 11 4 – 15 posterior ... sign 220 locked -in syndrome 17 3, 17 4, 17 6, 277 low back pain 18 6, 19 3– 7 acute 19 3–5 chronic 19 5– 7 degenerative disease 19 6 infection 19 3–4 inflammatio...

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... Nerve % C1 0.7 T1 1. 2 L1 4.6 S 0.3 C2 1. 0 T2 1. 6 L2 2.0 C3 2.2 T3 2.0 L3 1. 8 C4 12 .8 T4 4 .1 L4 1. 0 C5 16 .0 T5 3 .1 L5 0.5 C6 12 .9 T6 3.3 C7 6.7 T7 2.3 T8 3.4 T9 1. 8 T10 3.7 T 11 3.0 T12 7.4 Epidemiological ... 30.5 16 .0 5.7 35.4 29.3 Loss of consciousness 42.5 24.0 8 .1 22.4 26.2 28.2 Head injury 18 .4 10 .3 2.5 4.2 11 .4 11 .5 Brachial plexus injury 1. 2 0.8 1....

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