Miniature Adults
BLOOD
Potpourri
In Your Head
The Skull Basement
100
Sunsetting eyes, splayed sutures, lethargy, nausea/vomitting, apnea spells. These are the characteristic symptoms of
What is hydrocephalus?
100
What is the most common non-traumatic cause of this bleeding pattern?
What is aneurysmal rupture?
100
Irregular decreased respirations, bradycardia, and systolic hypertension with widening pulse pressure are known as?
What is Cushing's triad?
100
Which of the following genetic abnormalities is most commonly associated with the tumor shown in the photomicrograph?
What are 1p, 19q deletions?
100
A 60-year-old woman with a history of osteoporosis undergoes L1 pedicle subtraction osteotomy and T9-iliac instrumentation for the treatment of lumbar kyphosis. One year postoperatively, she reports that she is not able to stand as straight as she did immediately after surgery and has pain above her construct. An x-ray film is shown. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
What is proximal junction kyphosis?
200
The most common primary brain tumor in children is
What is Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma?
200
What three landmark trials demonstrated the effectiveness of early decompressive hemicraniectomy in patients with malignant MCA infarcts?
What are Decimal, Hamlet, Destiny?
200
This structure is commonly used as the landmark for pedicle screws of the lumbar spine.
What are mammillary processes?
200
A 68-year-old man comes to the emergency department because of painful swelling of his forehead and fever. A photograph of the forehead (Figure 1) and a CT image of the head are shown (Figure 2). He recalls falling and striking his forehead on a door five weeks earlier, but he did not seek medical attention. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
What is Pott's Puffy tumor?
200
What is the AO classification for the fracture pictured below?
What is B1
300
What does the anterior neuropore become and when does it close?
What is the lamina terminalis? What is 25 days?
300
Infarction of what artery causes contralateral hemiplegia, contralateral hemisensory loss, and contralateral homonymous hemianopsia?
What is the anterior choroidal artery?
300
A 41-year-old man is diagnosed with a 3.2-cm prolactinoma and initiated on cabergoline therapy with good response. Two months later, he presents to the emergency department (ED) with sudden-onset headache and decreased vision. He has an episode of mild hypotension in the ED. Visual acuity is 20/400 in both eyes (previously 20/30). CT scan and laboratory values are shown. What the most appropriate next steps in management and when should you plan for operative intervention?
What is to give steroids and when is within 72 hours?
300
What structure forms the roof of Dorello's canal?
What is Gruber's ligament?
300
Which of the following tumors is the most common cause of spinal cord compression in children?
Neuroblastoma
400
Who is considered the father of pediatric neurosurgery? Known for being the first describe the pathogenesis and treatment of hydrocephalus in the modern age
Who is Walter Dandy?
400
What is the artery shown by the white arrow?
What is the medial tentorial artery of Bernasconi-Cassanari?
400
What muscle in the soft palate is not innervated by CN X?
What is the tensor veli palatini?
400
For which of the following indications has the United States Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the serum biomarkers glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1)?
What are concussions?
400
Who was the lead author of the randomized clinical trial demonstrating the effectiveness of direct decompressive surgical resection in the treatment of acute spinal cord compression caused by metastatic cancer?
Who was Patchell?
500
What is the blood volume of a 6-month old baby weighing 7 kg?
What is 525 ml?
500
What is the vascular abnormality depicted in the angiogram?
What is a developmental venous anomaly?
500
What is the name of the neurosurgeon who invented DBS and where was it invented?
Who is Benabid and where is France?
500
Irving Cooper famously published an early treatment of Parkinson's disease by ligating this artery.
What is the anterior choroidal artery?
500
What is the name of the principle described below: "If loading on a particular bone increases, the bone will remodel itself over time to become stronger to resist that sort of loading"?
What is Wolff's law?