Neurological

Question 1

Folic acid deficiency in 1st trimester, faun’s beard and lumbar dimple

Answer 1

spina bifida

Question 2

defective neural tube with herniation of meninges through the defect

Answer 2

meningocele

Question 3

herniation of meninges and defective spinal cord through the defect

Answer 3

meningomyelocele

Question 4

cerebellar tonsil herniation associated with syringomyelia

Answer 4

Arnold-Chiari malformaiton 1

Question 5

cerebellar vermis herniation associated with hydrocephalus

Answer 5

Arnold-Chiari malformaiton 2

Question 6

cystic dilation of 4th ventricle and non-communicating hydrocephalus

Answer 6

Dandy Walker syndrome

Question 7

torn meningeal artery, head trauma in young adults

Answer 7

epidural hematoma

Question 8

torn bridging vein, head trauma in the elderly

Answer 8

subdural hematoma

Question 9

ruptured berry aneurysm in 30-40 year old adults

Answer 9

subarachnoid hemorrhage

Question 10

ruptured or occluded cerebral artery seen in older people

Answer 10

cerebrovascular accident

Question 11

bacterial or viral infection of the meninges

Answer 11

meningitis

Question 12

prion-related disease spread by eating the brains of dead relatives

Answer 12

Kuru

Question 13

transplacental spread with notches incisors, blindness and deafness

Answer 13

congenital syphyilis

Question 14

damage due to endarteritis obliterans of arteries to CNS and CVS

Answer 14

tertiary syphyilis

Question 15

neurofibrillary tangles, amyloid plaques and Hirano bodies

Answer 15

Alzheimer’s disease

Question 16

deficient dopamine, Lewy bodies, tremors at rest, festinating gait

Answer 16

Parkinson’s

Question 17

autosomal dominant chromosome 4 defect causing chorea, dementia

Answer 17

Huntington’s disease

Question 18

destruction of the lateral columns and ventral horns of the spinal cord

Answer 18

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Question 19

autoimmune destruction around the brain ventricles and spinal cord

Answer 19

multiple sclerosis

Question 20

damage to dorsal and lateral columns of the spinal cord, vitamin B12 def

Answer 20

posterolateral sclerosis

Question 21

m/c primary malignant brain tumor, worse prognosis

Answer 21

glioblastoma multiforme

Question 22

benign tumor arising from the arachnoid cells of the dura

Answer 22

meningioma

Question 23

may be part of type 2 neurofibromatosis, deafness and facial palsy

Answer 23

acoustic neuroma

Question 24

metastatic brain tumor sources

Answer 24

breast, renal, enteric, airway, skin and tumors elsewhere

Question 25

microcephaly, indistinct philtrum and maxillary hypoplasia

Answer 25

fetal alcohol poisoning

Question 26

anemia, basophilic stippling, constipation, difficult behavior, emesis

Answer 26

lead poisoning

Question 27

cherry red skin and headaches after inhalation of carbon monoxide

Answer 27

carbon monoxide poisoning

Question 28

mercury poisoning due to eating fish with excess mercury

Answer 28

minamata disease

Question 29

traction injury of C5 and C6 spinal nerve roots, waiter's tip

Answer 29

Erb-Duchene's palsy

Question 30

traction injury of C8 and T1 spinal nerve roots, claw hand

Answer 30

Klumpke's palsy

Question 31

neuropraxia of median nerve, paresthesia in radial 3 and 1/2 digits

Answer 31

carpal tunnel syndrome

Question 32

neuropraxia of median nerve between the heads of pronator teres

Answer 32

pronator teres syndrome

Question 33

neuropraxia of ulnar nerve behind the medial humeral epicondyle

Answer 33

elbow tunnel syndrome

Question 34

neuropraxia of the superficial radial nerve at the wrist

Answer 34

cheiralgia paresthetica

Question 35

neuropraxia of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve

Answer 35

meralgia paresthetica

Question 36

neuropraxia of the saphenous nerve at the knee

Answer 36

gonalgia paresthetica

Question 37

neuropraxia of the tibial nerve behind the medial malleolus

Answer 37

tarsal tunnel syndrome

Question 38

anterograde destruction of axon and sheath

Answer 38

Wallerian degen

Question 39

lead poisoning, aka

Answer 39

plumbism

Question 40

glove and stocking paresthesia

Answer 40

DM

Question 41

loves cool areas like skin and peripheral nerves

Answer 41

mycobacterium leprae

Question 42

infectious ascending demylelinating polyneuropathy

Answer 42

Guillian-Barre synd

Question 43

type 1 Complex Regional Pain Synd

Answer 43

Sudecks atropy

Question 44

type 2 Complex Regional Pain Synd

Answer 44

causalgia

Question 45

multiple neurofibromas in skin, spinal cord, and brain with cafe au lait skin lesions

Answer 45

Von Recklinhausen's disease

Question 46

progressive spinocerebellar tract damage, ataxia, scoliosis, speech, and heart problems

Answer 46

Friedreich's ataxia