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Causes of Peripheral Weakness without Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
No Objective Weakness
 • Cardio-pulmonary disease
- Differential Diagnosis ... Neuropathy • Spinal ... Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome ... #Neurology #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Causes of Pediatric Constipation - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Dietary / Functional:
 • Insufficient Volume / Bulk
Neurologic:
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Causes of Pediatric ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Hirschsprung's Disease • Spinal ... Guillain-Barré Syndrome ... • Muscular Dystrophy
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Neuromuscular Weakness ... • Spinal Cord: ... Mitochondrial myopathy, Muscular ... #differential #diagnosis ... #neurology
Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
injury, often from vascular ... Upper extremity weakness ... anesthesia. leg weakness ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #orthopedics #neurology
Lower Extremity Dermatomes and Myotomes
Reflexes: 
 • Knee - L2, L3, L4
 • Ankle - S1
• Cauda Equina Syndrome ... such as fibular fracture ... claudication and weakness ... Dermatomes #Myotomes #diagnosis ... #neurology #sensory
Brown-Sequard syndrome

It is a rare neurological condition characterized by a lesion in the spinal cord which
Brown-Sequard syndrome ... lesion in the spinal ... which results in weakness ... #diagnosis #Neurology
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
Syndromes Spinal ... result in permanent neurologic ... Vertebral burst fracture ... #differential #diagnosis ... #neurology
Beevor's Sign on Physical Exam

Beevor's sign is abnormal upward (cephalad) movement of the umbilicus with truncal
abdominis muscle weakness ... paralysis from spinal ... facioscapulohumeral muscular ... PhysicalExam #clinical #video ... #umbilicus #neurology
Parinaud's Syndrome
What?
 - Impaired upgaze
 - Light-near dissociation
 - Convergence retraction nystagmus
 - Eyelid retraction (Collier's
Parinaud's Syndrome ... setting sun sign" - Vascular ... gabifpucci #Parinauds #Syndrome ... #diagnosis #pineal ... #neurology
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
- Differential Diagnosis ... compression by fractured ... Vascular/Blockage ... MCTD, Sjogren syndrome ... #neurology #differential