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Causes of Seizures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Unprovoked - Epilepsy:
 • Focal: Simple, Complex
 • Generalized: Absence,
Causes of Seizures ... Toxoplasmosis, Neurocysticercosis ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Causes ... #neurology
CNS Ring-Enhancing Lesions - Immunocompromised vs Immunocompetent
Multiple Ring-Enhancing Lesions:
 • Toxoplasmosis (CD4 < 100)
 • Other
Parasitic • Neurocysticercosis ... differential #diagnosis #causes ... #radiology #neurology
Rhombencephalitis
BACTERIAL
- Listeria (biphasic illness with bulbar dysfunction occurring later)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Pneumococcus
- Brucella
- Borrelia (Lyme Disease)
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PARASITIC - Neurocysticercosis ... Differential #Diagnosis #Causes ... #Neurology
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
Non-compressive Spinal Cord Causes ... Toxoplasmosis, Neurocysticercosis ... disorders #diagnosis #neurology
Neurocysticercosis is caused by CNS infection with the pork tapeworm Taenia solium. There are four main
Neurocysticercosis ... is caused by CNS ... imaging, this case ... #nuerocysticercosis
CNS Ring-Enhancing Lesions - Differential Diagnosis
 • Infections: Cerebral abscess (bacterial, fungal, parasitic), Neurocysticercosis, Tuberculoma, Cerebral
fungal, parasitic), Neurocysticercosis ... Differential #Diagnosis #neurology
Disseminated Neurocysticercosis on Skull XRay. 

One can appreciate calcified lessons in the Chest wall in CXR
Disseminated Neurocysticercosis ... Positive serology ... #Disseminated #Neurocysticercosis
Drugs Causing Acute Pancreatitis

Class Ia: The medications in which there was a rechallenge and other causes
rechallenge and other causes ... out other common causes ... Class II: Cases ... and atleast4 case ... #Pancreatitis #Causes
Causes of Facial Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Forehead Sparing = Central cause
  - Most commonly
Causes of Facial ... Sparing = Central cause ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Causes ... #neurology #sparing
Causes of Proximal Muscle Weakness That May Mimic Inflammatory Myopathy
 • Central or peripheral neurologic disease
Causes of Proximal ... or peripheral neurologic ... #differential #causes ... #neurology