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Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
Loss of pain and ... clumsiness in hands ... rectal reflex. ... #msk #orthopedics ... #neurology
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
result in permanent neurologic ... ., poliovirus, syphilis ... Lower motor neuron symptoms ... rectum - Impotence ... rectal sphincter
Cauda Equina Syndrome Overview

Cauda Equina Syndrome:
 • Prevalence: 1:33,000-100,000 ppl/yr
 • Incidence: 1.5-3.4 million ppl/yr
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L1-L5 Symptoms ... so-called ‘red flag’ symptoms ... Severe low back pain ... - decreased rectal ... diagnosis #causes #neurology
Trendelenburg Gait: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Skeletal Pathology of the Hip
 • Arthritis
 • Congenital hip dysplasia
Chondrodysplasia Neurologic ... Lesion in the Spinal ... Sacroiliac Joint Pain ... pathophysiology #causes #symptoms ... signs #diagnosis #msk
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
peripheral vs axial (spine ... constitutional symptoms ... /Bacteria • Syphilis ... Fungi, secondary syphilis ... Differential #Diagnosis #MSK
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
Sensitivity to pain ... Signs and symptoms ... (Spinal cord predominant ... objective evidence of neurologic ... diagnosis #management #neurology
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
disorder of the spinal ... 10-33% develop MS ... or without back pain ... /or symptoms • ... diagnosis #management #neurology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
skin injury) • Neurologic ... white matter, spinal ... meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... • Nonsurgical abdominal ... pain: Glucocorticoids
Chagas Disease - American Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is an infectious
form (No signs/symptoms ... , positive serology ... Megacolon (sigmoid, rectum ... 80%) (abdominal ... pain, chronic constipation