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Causes of Hemiplegia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cerebral Hemisphere (Contralateral motor cortex)
 • Aphasia
 • Apraxia
 •
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Cerebral ... Consciousness • Cranial Nerve ... Brown-Sequard Syndrome ... #Hemiplegia #Neurology
Causes of Peripheral Weakness without Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
No Objective Weakness
 • Cardio-pulmonary disease
without Sensory ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome ... #Neurology #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Neuromuscular Weakness ... Demyelinating Disease (MS ... Tumor • Motor Nerves ... #differential #diagnosis ... #neurology
NINDS Diagnostic Criteria for Guillain Barre Syndrome 
Features Required for Guillain-Barré Syndrome:
 • Progressive muscle weakness
Progression of weakness ... involvement, Mild sensory ... signs, Cranial nerve ... in CSF • Sharp sensory ... #neurology #neuropathy
Principal patterns of loss of sensation.
 (a) Thalamic lesion: sensory loss throughout opposite side (rare).
Brown—Séquard syndrome ... with ipsilateral weakness ... MS: loss of proprioception ... #Diagnosis #Neurology ... Review in Clinical Neurology
Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Approach To Weakness:
 • Non-neuromuscular disorder (Cardiac, pulmonary etc)
 • CNS ->
Diagnosis Framework ... • Acute stroke syndromes ... signs - Lack of sensory ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #neurology
Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
Upper extremity weakness ... Sensory loss below ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... signs #symptoms #msk ... #orthopedics #neurology
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
COVID 19 - Zika virus ... • Pain: Due to nerve ... Guillain-Barre Diagnosis ... #diagnosis #management ... #treatment #neurology
Lower Extremity Dermatomes and Myotomes
Reflexes: 
 • Knee - L2, L3, L4
 • Ankle - S1
• Cauda Equina Syndrome ... damage to peroneal nerve ... claudication and weakness ... Dermatomes #Myotomes #diagnosis ... #neurology #sensory
Oppositional Grasp Weakness in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Dysfunction of the six- Opposition weakness-in carpal tunnel syndrome with
of the median nerve ... & Ulnar nerve ( ... #clinical #video ... #physicaleaxm #neurology ... #orthopedics #msk