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Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Neuromuscular Weakness ... Tumor • Motor Nerves ... Guillain-Barre syndrome ... #Causes #differential ... #diagnosis #neurology
CN III Palsy - Oculomotor Nerve
 • Ptosis: Loss of innervation of the levator palpebrae superior.
Palsy - Oculomotor Nerve ... comparison to Horner's syndrome ... Extraocular Muscle Weakness ... Palsy #Oculomotor #Nerve ... #Cranial #neurology
Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Approach To Weakness:
 • Non-neuromuscular disorder (Cardiac, pulmonary etc)
 • CNS ->
Weakness - Differential ... • Acute stroke syndromes ... dystrophies Work ... #Differential # ... Diagnosis #neurology
Localizing Extraocular Movement Disorders
 • CN Ill (Oculomotor) Nerve Palsy 
 • CN IV (Trochlear) Nerve
Ill (Oculomotor) Nerve ... IV (Trochlear) Nerve ... One-and-a-half Syndrome ... #Localization #ophthalmology ... #neurology #differential
Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
clinical findings • Anterior ... > Anterior spinal ... Upper extremity weakness ... symptoms #msk #orthopedics ... #neurology
Neuro-OphthaImoIogy - Visual Field Defects - Localization Map
 - Optic Nerve Lesion (Monocular vision loss)
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Neuro-OphthaImoIogy ... Map - Optic Nerve ... • Optic nerve ... NeuroOphthaImoIogy #Neurology ... #Differential #
Causes of Hemiplegia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cerebral Hemisphere (Contralateral motor cortex)
 • Aphasia
 • Apraxia
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of Hemiplegia - Differential ... Consciousness • Cranial Nerve ... Brown-Sequard Syndrome ... #Hemiplegia #Neurology ... #Differential #
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
result in permanent neurologic ... • Etiology - Anterior ... tracts in the anterior ... #lesions #differential ... #diagnosis #neurology
Oppositional Grasp Weakness in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Dysfunction of the six- Opposition weakness-in carpal tunnel syndrome with
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ... of the median nerve ... & Ulnar nerve ( ... #physicaleaxm #neurology ... #orthopedics #msk
Upper Extremity Dermatomes and Myotomes
Motor Function
Shoulder:
 • Abduction - C5,C6 (axillary)
 • Adduction - C6, C7,
hand" ± Horner Syndrome ... Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ... Anterior Shoulder ... anesthesia and deltoid weakness ... Myotomes #diagnosis #neurology