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Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
Acute Spinal Cord ... -> Anterior spinal ... Loss of pain and ... signs #symptoms #msk ... #orthopedics #neurology
Incomplete Spinal Cord Syndromes
Anterior Cord Syndrome:
 • Bilateral loss of motor, pain and temperature sensation below
Incomplete Spinal ... loss of motor, pain ... disruption of anterior spinal ... Contralateral loss of pain ... #Diagnosis #Neurology
Reflex Testing - Causes of Hyporeflexia and Hyperreflexia
Focal Hyporeflexia: 
 • Radiculopathy, Mononeuropathy, Polyneuropathy, Acute stroke,
stroke, Acute spinal ... cord injury Generalized ... Guillain-Barré syndrome ... cord injury, Early ... diagnosis #table #neurology
Mechanisms of Pain
Mixed - Nociceptive/Neuropathic
Nociceptive - Tissue Damage
 - Visceral - (From organ/cavity lining) Poorly localized,
syndrome - Deafferentation ... Post-stroke • Spinal ... injury #Pain ... #Mechanisms #Neurology ... #Causes
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
Syndromes Spinal ... result in permanent neurologic ... Causes of spinal ... • Extrinsic Causes ... differential #diagnosis #neurology
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Causes of Neuromuscular ... Weakness • Spinal ... Demyelinating Disease (MS ... Phrenic nerve injury ... differential #diagnosis #neurology
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiovascular Causes:
 - Outflow Obstruction
     • Aortic
Chest Pain - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Muscular Injury ... • Trauma - Neurologic ... Disorder • Spinal
Leg Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Bone/Joint Causes of Leg Pain:
 • Fracture
 • Arthritis
 • Gout/pseudogout
Bone/Joint Causes ... deficiency etc) • Spinal ... Repetitive strain injury ... Trauma • Crush injury ... lower #extremity #msk
Pathologic / Fragility Fractures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Tumours
 - See Bone Lesions Scheme
Paget's Disease
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Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Disease - Skull/spine ... Ricketts - Diffuse Pain ... Fractures #Pathologic #MSK ... #Orthopedics #Causes
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Acute Kidney Injury ... - AKI Workup Algorithm ... cryoglobulins, hepatitis serology ... , HIV serology, ... #causes