Practice test Flashcards
(17 cards)
Most common age for medulloblastoma
Kids (3-8 years old)
Glioblastoma most common age
60 for primary
45 for secondary
Pilocytic astrocytoma most common age
childhood
Pilocytic astrocytoma most common location
cerebellar hemispheres, optic nerves and chiasm, and hypothalamic region
Meningioma age
women in 50s
Ependymoma age
first two decades of life
Ependymoma location
4th ventricle or spinal chord in adults
Ependymoma grade
II or III
AD general category of neurodegenerative disease
tauopathy and amyloid plaques
AD brain sites
cortex
Pick’s disease category of neurodegenerative disease
tauopathy
Pick’s disease brain sites
frontal and temporal lobes
Pick’s disease characteristic features
Ubiquitin
Tau
Pick bodies
Parkinson’s general category of neurodegenerative disease
synucleinopathy
Parkinson’s brain sites
substantia nigra (subcortical)
Spongiform change
prions
Huntington’s brain sites
caudate and putamen
