Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery - part 5 ppsx

... 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 ... monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Demyelinating Disease and Brain Atrophy Tsementzis, Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery © 2000 Thieme All rights re...

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... 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 16...

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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 ... disorders Hypoxic–ischemic my- elopathy In severe perinatal asphyxia causing hypotonia and areflexia Spinal cord injury Cervical spinal cord injury occur s exclusively d...

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... becomes involved rapidly, and the disease prog- resses within a few months to total blindness and fi- nally to death within a year Neuro-Ophthalmology Tsementzis, Differential Diagnosis in Neurology ... nerve in 85% of cases, and the abducens and trochlear nerves in only 15% Cavernous sinus throm- bosis Originating almost exclusively from spread of infection from the mout...

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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 ... gadolinium diethylene-triamine-penta-acetic acid (Gd-DTPA) en- hancement further increases the diagnostic accuracy from 89% to 96%. Overall sagittal and axial T...

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... 25% of primary spinal tumors; 90% 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 ... 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 ț Scia...

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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- tri...

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... 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 inflammation and necrosis in ... pathological findings in the brain are also non- specific for arboviral infection. The diagnosis of arboviral infec- tions is made serologically (hemagglutination inhibition,...

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... help) 5 10 Moving from wheelchair to bed and return (including sitting up in bed) 5 10 15 Performing personal toilet (washing face, combing hair, shaving, cleaning teeth) 0 5 Transferring on and ... stand- ing, and may be relieved when she lies down Symphysiolysis pubis Pain in the groin, symphysis pubis and thigh, which may be increased while rising from sitting to standing...

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... pri- mary syringomyelia and Chiari malformation Basilar invagination – The term “basilar invagination” refers to the pri- mary form of invagination of the margins of the foramen magnum upward into ... pain syndrome 20 Meningitides 15 Encephalitides 15 Sleep disorders 15 Subarachnoid hemor- rhage 15 Cervical disk herniation 15 Metastatic brain tumor 15 Peripheral nerve trauma 15 Benig...

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