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1
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Why might surgery to the parotid gland cause a dry eye

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damage to the facial nerve which runs through it

this would paralyse obicularis oculi leading to a drooping eyelid and dry eye

2
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what is the nerve supply to the parotid

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9- glossopharyngeal

3
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what is Ramsey hunt sydrome

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shingles infection that goes on to infect cn 7

this can lead to paralysis of the facila muscles e.g. obicularis oculi

4
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what can cause glaucoma

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blockage of scleral venous drainage

5
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what is hutchitongs sign

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vesicles on the tip of the nose which may precede opthalmic herpes zoster

shingles infection spreading to the eye, can spread to the optic nerve

6
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what are the signs of huntingtons

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flailing movement, confusion, disdiodochokinesia

7
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what is the cause of huntingtons

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damage to the caudate nucleus leading to loss of GABA and encephalin

this means the indirect pathway is decreased and movement in increased

8
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what substances mediate the medial globus pallidus

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GABA and substance P

9
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what is the result of lesions to the spinocerebellar part of the cerebellum

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linb ataxia and action tremour

10
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what would be the effect of vermis lesions

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bilateral loss of control of truncal muscles and slurred speech

11
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what are the signs of stroke on an enhanced CT

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abnormal cortical subcortical area, appears darker than usual due to oedema

hyperdense areas

inability to visualise the lentiform nucleus

12
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what is the result of PHF8 mutation

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siderius x linked retardation and cleft palate

13
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what mutations may cause cleft lips

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22q11, IRF8, PHF8

14
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what is the gene for wardenburgs syndrome (deafness, constipation, pigment defects)

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PAX-C

15
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TCOF-1 gene (failure of the first and second arch to develop, abnormal eye shape and underdeveloped zygoma)

A

treacher collins

16
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what is bullous keratopathy

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small vesicles are formed in the cornea due to endothelial dysfunction

17
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what vision would be the result of an optic tract lesion

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bitemporal hemianopia

18
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what test can be used to test the function of the superior oblique muscles innervated by the trochlear nerve

A

look downward and inwards

19
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what causes homonymous hemianopia

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optic tract damage

20
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what would be the result of and abducent nerve lesion

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patient could not look lateral

21
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what would the result of an occulomotor nerve lesion

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pateint could not look up and out , down and out , medail or up and inward

22
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what nerve innervates stapedius muscles which dampens the movement of stapes bone

A

facial, 7

if damaged can lead to excessive movement of stapes on loud noises leading to pain

23
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what pharyngeal arch makes the facial nerve and stapes

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2nd

24
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what does the first pharyngeal arch make

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trigeminal nerve and muscles of mastication

25
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what arch makes stylopharyngeus muscles

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3rd pharyngeal

26
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which meatus does the facial nerve pass through

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external auditory meatus

27
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what muscle is used to move the eye outwards and laterally

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right inferior rectus

28
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what is amaurosis fugax

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temporary blindness caused by the blockage of the retinal artery by a thrombus

29
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pituritary tumour on the optic chiasm

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bilateral hemianopia

30
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half of the visual field loss in the contralateral eye

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POCS stroke

31
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meyers loop lesion

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contralateral superior quandrantiopia

32
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phenobarbitone

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antiepileptic which also causes osteoporosis

33
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what does a lesion to the cerebrocerebellar part of the cerebellum lead to

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delay in initiating movements and performing complex movements

34
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medial vestibulospinal

A

head position

35
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spinocerebellar lesion

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limb ataxia and action tremour

36
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what canal is just next to the foramen magnum

A

hypoglossal canal

37
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foramen caecum

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emisary vein from the nose to the superior sagittal sinus

38
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what is the clinical significance of the foramen caecum

A

infections of the nose and nearby areas can be transmitted to the meninges and brain from the danger triangle of the face

39
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foramen rotundum (sphenoid bone)

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maxillary branch of trigeminal nerve passes through and extis the skull via the pterygopalatine fossa and foramen rotundum

40
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foramen ovale

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transmits the mandibular nerve, trigeminal motor root, accessory meningeal artery

41
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foramen spinosum

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middle meningeal artery, vein and meningeal branch of mandibular nerve

42
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what stroke is isolated dysphasia

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PACS partial anterior circulation stroke

43
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when would you give intra arterial thrombolysis instead of IV

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from 3-6 hours after the stroke

44
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what is TACS (total arterial circulation stroke) symptoms

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hemiparesis, dysphasia and homonymous hemianopia

45
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what is POCS (posterior circulation stroke)

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posterior lobe affect so homonymous hemianopia