Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery - part 7 docx

... 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 Sciatic nerve ... extradural. Among the spinal meningiomas, 17% are in the cervi- cal spine, 75 – 81% in the thoracic spine and 2 7% in the lumbar region ț Nerve sheath tumors E.g., schwannoma, ne...

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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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... 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 ... measles infection in children be- tween 5 and 15 years and in young adults. The brain shows diffuse and widespread inflammation and necrosis in both the gray and whi...

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... Ludwigsburg Printed in Germany by Offizin Andersen Nexö, Leipzig ISBN 3-1 3-1 1615 1-5 (GTV) ISBN 0-8 6 57 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 1615...

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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 ... hemorrhagic infarction of the pituitary gland oc- curring usually in preexisting pituitary tumor Bilateral Sudden Visual Loss Tsementzis, Differential Diagnosis in Neurolo...

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... monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Demyelinating Disease and Brain Atrophy Tsementzis, Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery © 2000 Thieme All rights reserved. Usage subject to terms and ... cirrhosis Drugs Dopamine antagonists (e.g., phenothiazine-like drugs) Reserpine – α-methyl – Dopa Opiate derivatives (e.g., morphine) Prostaglandin F 2α Thyrotropin-releasing horm...

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... superior iliac spine. Numbness is the ear- liest and most common symptom. Patients also complain of pain, pares- thesias (tingling and burning) and often touch – pain – temperature hyp- esthesia over ... abnormal two-point discrimination. Weakness affects the first dorsal interosseous muscle first and most severely. Weakness and wasting of the hypothenar and in- trinsic hand mus...

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... 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, and during walking Transient ... weight-bearing parasacral or groin pain – Chronic mechanical spine pain: increased with pro- longed standing, relieved rapidly in supine position Osteomalacia – Diffuse ske...

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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 ... infarction 1 2.5 22 37. 9 Alcohol-related 6 15.0 5 8.6 CNS infection 7 17. 5 2 3.4 Epidemiological Characteristics of Neurological Diseases Tsementzis, Differential Diagnosis in Neuro...

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