Mnemonics 2 Flashcards
LARS
Mnemonic to remember how to change contact rx if contact fits but is shifted from its correct position (for a toric cl). Also, 1 clock hour=30 degrees Left Add Right Subtract
LFT’s
Superior fissure structures that pass outside of the annulus of Zinn: Lacrimal branch of V1 Frontal branch of V1 Trochlear nerve (IV) Superior ophthalmic vein
SMEL
Orbital bones composing the medial orbital wall: Sphenoid Maxillary Ethomoid Lacrimal
Standing Room Only
Foramen that CN V branches pass through
CN V1: Superior orbital fissure
CN V2: Foramen Rotundum
CN V3: Foramen Ovale
NUMP
Different forms of basal cell carcinoma Nodular (most common) Ulcerative Morpheaform (most aggressive) Pigmented
LANS
Different forms of cutaneous melanoma: Lentigo maligna (most common) Acrolentiginous Nodular Superficial spreading
BEAP
Types of rhabdomyosarcoma: Boytroid Embryonal: most common Alveolar: worst prognosis Pleomorphic: Best prognosis
Everyone gets Embryonal, Alveolar is Awful, Pleomorphic Please
B & SSS
Ddx for panuveitis Behcet disease and Sympathetic ophthalmia/VKH Syphylis/TB Sarcoidosis
DEPRIVEN
CME Ddx DM Epinephrine Pars Planitis RP Irvine-Gass Venous occlusion E2 prostaglandins (e.g. Travatan) Nicotinic acid maculopathy
VVV SS O
Functional classes (or system) of eye movements. All are conjugate except for vergences are disconjugate
Vestibular
Vergence
Visual fixation
Saccades (Quick phase of nystagmus similar to this)
Smooth pursuit
Optokinetic
I LOVE PTC
Medications that can cause pseudotumor cererbri (really not called pseudotumor cererbri if drug induced though)
Isoretinoin (accutane)
Lithium
OCP’S
Vitamin A
Endocrine (synthetic growth hormone)
Prednisone (too much or withdrawal)
Tetracyclines
Cyclosporine
10/20/40/60 rule for optic neuritis
10 year risk of developing MS is 22% when no MRI lesions found, 38% for both groups combined, and 60% if MRI lesion found
BARODOxiCAL
DDx for paradoxical pupil (pupil that constricts immediately when lights are turned off and then dilate) Affects usually congenital retinal/optic diseases
Best's Achromatopsia RP Albinism Dominant optic atrophy Optic nerve Hypoplasia XI: none CSNB A: none L: Leber's congenital amaurosis
WANT SV
6 Phacomatoses syndromes
Wyburn-Mason (has racemose angioma
Ataxia-Telangiectasia
Neurofibromatosis
Tuberous Sclerosis
Sturge-Weber
Von Hippell Lindau (add Lindau if cerebral hemangiomatosis)
WATCH HIM SEE
Ddx for ectopia lentis
Weill-Marchesani Aniridia Trauma Congenital glaucoma Hereditary ectopia lentis
Homocystinuria and Hyperlysinemia
Iris coloboma
Marfans
Sulfite oxidase deficiency and Syphilis
Ehler’s Danlos
Ectopia lentis et pupilae
Victor Brown
Reminder that Brown syndrome has V pattern strabismus unlike inferior oblique palsy which has A pattern. Both can have over under elevation in Adduction
Rude Little Green Men keep coming back
Order of recurrence rate (from highest to lowest) of corneal stromal dystrophies:
Reis-Bucklers Lattice Granular Macular Keep coming back
VBAC needs NSAIDS
Common medication causes of neurotrophic keratopathy
Viroptic
Beta-blockers
Anesthetic drops
Carbonic anhydrase drops
and NSAIDS
Get your HEN a CBC
Inclusions in HSV vs Chlamydia
HSV
Eosinophilic
Nuclear
Chlamydia
Basophilic
Cytoplasmic
