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Causes of Low Back Pain - Differential Diagnosis
Intrinsic Spine: Lumbar strain, Herniated nucleus pulposus, Compression fracture,
Causes of Low Back Pain ... Connective tissue disease ... • Vascular - abdominal ... cholecystitis; • Neurologic ... #primarycare #msk
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
result in permanent neurologic ... ., poliovirus, syphilis ... rectum - Impotence ... rectal sphincter ... differential #diagnosis #neurology
Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
Loss of pain and ... clumsiness in hands ... rectal reflex. ... signs #symptoms #msk ... #orthopedics #neurology
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
peripheral vs axial (spine ... /Bacteria • Syphilis ... Rheumatologic Disease ... Fungi, secondary syphilis ... Differential #Diagnosis #MSK
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
super-antigen mediated disease ... or without back pain ... Pallidum - Lyme Disease ... MCTD - Bechet disease ... diagnosis #management #neurology
Iliotibial Band Friction Syndrome - MSK Radiology
Imaging Findings:
 • The iliotibial band (ITB) is thickened with
Friction Syndrome - MSK ... anterolateral knee pain ... Findings of chronic disease ... similar location of pain ... lateral knee joint recess
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Syndrome Systemic disease ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... white matter, spinal ... • Nonsurgical abdominal ... pain: Glucocorticoids
Chagas Disease - American Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is an infectious
symptoms, positive serology ... cardiomyopathy (→HF) with apical ... Megacolon (sigmoid, rectum ... 80%) (abdominal ... pain, chronic constipation
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
neurodegenerative disease ... Sensitivity to pain ... (Spinal cord predominant ... objective evidence of neurologic ... diagnosis #management #neurology
Causes of Myoclonus - Differential Diagnosis
LOCALIZATION:
 • Cortical: Focal/multifocal: Distal UL+ Face, Action/sensitive induced
 • Sub-Cortical:
Auditory induced • Spinal ... HIV, Malaria, Syphilis ... Inflammatory (MS ... Chronic: Storage disease ... Diagnosis #Causes #neurology