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Causes of Peripheral Weakness - With and Without Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
With Sensory Changes:
With and Without Sensory ... Changes - Differential ... Algorithm With Sensory ... Peripheral #Weakness #Sensory ... #Neurology #Differential
Causes of Hemiplegia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cerebral Hemisphere (Contralateral motor cortex)
 • Aphasia
 • Apraxia
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of Hemiplegia - Differential ... Dementia • +/- Sensory ... May be without sensory ... contralateral sensory ... Hemiplegia #Neurology #Differential
Causes of Peripheral Weakness with Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Radiculopathy:
 • Disc
 • Spondylosis
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Weakness with Sensory ... Changes - Differential ... Peripheral #Weakness #Sensory ... #Neurology #Differential
Meralgia paresthetica: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Compression/injury of Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve (LFCN) -> Meralgia paresthetica
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LFCN is a purely sensory ... symptoms are purely sensory ... palpable mass Sensory ... pathophysiology #differential
Causes of Aphasia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Fluent - Grammatically correct, but nonsensical, tangential. Phonemic & semantic
Causes of Aphasia - Differential ... Transcortical Sensory ... Aphasia #Neurology #Differential
Causes of Falls in the Elderly - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
- Intrinsic Factors - 
Presyncope / Syncope
the Elderly - Differential ... • Non-Cardiac Sensory ... Elderly #Geriatrics #Differential
Confabulation
What? Honest Lie.  
No incoming sensory information + Filling of the blanks with different information
No incoming sensory ... Confabulation #differential
Causes of Peripheral Weakness without Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
No Objective Weakness
 • Cardio-pulmonary disease
Weakness without Sensory ... Changes - Differential ... Weakness #Neurology #Differential
Dizziness - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Vertigo:
 • Peripheral: Labyrinthitis, BPPV, Meniere's disease, Alternobaric
 • Central: CVA/TIA -
Dizziness - Differential ... feeling off balance, Sensory ... jmcchiefs #Dizziness #Differential
Mechanisms of Pain
Mixed - Nociceptive/Neuropathic
Nociceptive - Tissue Damage
 - Visceral - (From organ/cavity lining) Poorly localized,
Deafferentation - Loss of sensory ... Mechanisms #Neurology #Differential