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DR GANESHGOUDA MAJIGOUDRA
CONSULTANT NEUROLOGIST
NANJAPPA HOSPITALS DAVANAGERE
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VITALS-
BP
• Determining the BP in both arms is useful in patients with suspected CVA.
regulation, as in MSA.
• Its a late sign of increasing ICP and indicates that brainstem herniation is imminent.
• Increased BP occurs in some patients acutely with stroke or SAH before ICP has risen.
• Increased BP due to stroke is often due to peripheral attempts to compensate for cerebral ischemia and
usually resolves without treatment.
• Severe systemic hypotension is rarely due to a neurologic cause, except as a terminal event, and is
much more suggestive of a hemodynamic disturbance
THE PULSE
• The pulse rate & character are important, especially if increased ICP is suspected.
• Detecting the irregularly irregular pulse of AF is important in the evaluation of stroke patients.
• Neurologic complications of pulmonary disease are common. Note the respiratory rate, rhythm, depth,
and character of respirations.
• Abnormalities of respiration, such as Cheyne-Stokes, Biot, or Kussmaul breathing may be seen in coma
and other neurologic disorders.
• Either hyperpnea or periods of apnea may occur in increased ICP & in disturbances of the
hypothalamus.
• Use of accessory muscles of respiration may signal impending ventilatory failure in patients with
many NMJ disorders , GBS & MND.
SMELL OF BREATH
• Acetone (DKA)
• Ethanol (intoxication)
• Infection • Exposure
• inflammation • sepsis
• neoplasms (rare), • shock
• Anticholinergics • myxedema coma
• SAH • Wernicke’s encephalopathy
• Hypothalamic Lesion •Drug Intoxication (especially
• Heatstroke barbiturates)
• thyroid storm • hypothalamic lesion
• malignant hyperthermia • Hypoglycemia
GENERAL APPEARANCE
• Abnormal posture of the trunk, head, or extremities; the general level of motor activity;
• Weight loss and evidence of malnutrition may indicate hyperthyroidism, Alzheimer’s disease,
• The body fat level & distribution, together with the hair distribution & the secondary sexual development
• Gigantism,
• Dwarfism,
• Gross deformities,
• Amputations, Contractures
• Spastic hemiparesis causes flexion of the upper extremity with flexion and adduction at the shoulder,
flexion at the elbow and wrist, and flexion and adduction of the fingers;
• In the lower extremity there is extension at the hip, knee, and ankle, with an equinus deformity of
the foot.
ABNORMAL POSTURES
• In Parkinson’s disease and related syndromes, there is flexion of the neck, trunk, elbows, wrists, and
• In myopathies there may be lordosis, protrusion of the abdomen, a waddling gait, and hypertrophy of
the calves.
• Peripheral nerve disease may cause wrist or foot drop or a claw hand or pes cavus.
PES CAVUS
HEAD
• Shape, symmetry, and size of the head note any apparent abnormalities or irregularities.
• Premature closure of cranial sutures can produce wide variety of abnormally shaped skulls –
craniosynostosis.
CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS
• Plagiocephaly.- involves fusion of either the right or left side of the coronal suture that runs from
ear to ear.
• Produces a flattening of the forehead and the brow on the affected side, with the forehead tending
• Early closure of this suture may result in a prominent ridge running down the forehead. The forehead
looks quite pointed, like a triangle, with closely placed eyes (hypotelorism).
• Scaphocephaly is an early closure of fusion of the sagittal suture. This is the most common type of
synostosis. This suture runs front to back, down the middle of the top of the head. This fusion
causes a long, narrow skull.
CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS
• Craniosynostosis usually occurs as an isolated condition, but there are numerous syndromes in
between the facial and the cerebral portions, scars, signs of recent trauma.
FACE
• Dilated veins, telangiectatic areas, or port- wine angiomas on the scalp or face.
• In those with head trauma, ecchymosis over the mastoid (Battle sign) or around the eyes but not
extending beyond the orbital rim (“raccoon eyes”) suggests basilar skull fracture.
SKULL
• Palpation of the skull may disclose deformities due to old trauma, burr hole, or craniotomy defects,
tenderness, or scars.
• The size and patency of the fontanelles is important in infants as bulging of the fontanelles & suture
• Localized swelling of the scalp may occur with osteomyelitis of the skull.
• Giant cell arteritis may cause induration and tenderness of the superfi cial temporal arteries.
POTTS PUFFY TUMOUR
PERCUSSION OF SKULL
• Percussion of the skull may disclose dullness on the side of a tumor or subdural
hematoma
• Tympanitic percussion note in hydrocephalus & increased ICP in infants and children
• Cephalic bruits may occur with angiomas, aneurysms, arteriovenou malformations, neoplasms that
compress large arteries, and in the presence of atherosclerotic plaques that partially occlude cerebral
or carotid arteries.
• Ocular bruits usually signify occlusive intracranial cerebrovascular disease. A carotid bruit
may be transmitted to the mastoid
• An ocular bruit in a patient with a arteriovenous aneurysm may disappear on carotid compression.
• Murmurs may be transmitted from the heart or large vessels
FACIAL EXPRESSION
• Acromegaly,
• Myxedema,
• Hyperthyroidism,
• Down’s syndrome,
• Mucopolysacchroidosis.
RISUS SARDONICUS IN TETANUS
MASK LIKE FACE
PERPETUAL SURPRISE - PROCERUS SIGN IN PSP
MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY
EYES
• Ophthalmologic abnormalities can provide many clues to the etiology of neurologic disease as well
as to the presence of underlying systemic disease that may be causing neurologic symptomatology.
EYES
• A carotid-cavernous fistula (CCF) results from an abnormal communication between the arterial
• Examination of the ears is particularly important in patients with hearing loss or vertigo.
• Examination of the ear canal may reveal a glomus tumor in a patient with jugular foramen syndrome, vesicles
• Hemorrhage into the middle ear may cause a bulging, blue-red tympanic membrane in patients with basilar
skull fracture.
HITZELBERGER’S SIGN
• There is early involvement of the sensory fibers which causes hypoesthesia of the posterior
meatal wall.
NOSE
• Evidence of bacterial infection in dangerous area of face may be a sign of cavernous sinus thrombosis;
• Other potential findings include xerostomia in Sjögren’s ,a lead line along the gums in lead toxicity, trismus in
tetanus or polymyositis; and mucosal ulceration in Behçet’s disease.
• Note any adenopathy, thyroid masses or enlargement, deformities, tenderness, rigidity, tilting or other
• In meningeal irritation the primary limitation is in neck flexion; in spondylosis the limitation is either
• The carotid arteries should be cautiously and lightly palpated bilaterally, one at a time, and, followed by
• Any variation from the normal in the size or shape of the hands, feet, or digits, as well as
deformities, joint changes, contractures, pain or limitation of movement, localized tenderness,
wasting, clubbed fingers, or ulcerations may be significant.
• Diseases of the nervous system are found in association with such skeletal and developmental
anomalies as syndactyly, polydactyly, and arachnodactyly.
NERVE
THICKENING
NERVE
THICKENING
SKIN
• Purpura and petechiae in ttp , meningococcemia, and rocky mountain spotted fever.
– An erythematous, scaly eruption over the extensor surfaces of the metacarpophalangeal joints and
digits
HELIOTROPE RASH:
Periungual Erythema
PHAKOMATOSES - NEUROCUTANEOUS SYNDROMES
• The phakomatoses or neurocutaneous syndromes are a phenotypically and genetically diverse group
of multisystem disorders that primarily affect the skin and central nervous system.
LIST OF PHACOMATOSES
• Neurofibromatosis type1
• Neurofibromatosis type 2
• Two types-
• Plexiform neurofibromas – Subcutaneous elastic tumors, feel like a bag of worms over face, scalp,
neck and chest.
NEUROFIBROMA
3. LISCH NODULES
• Slightly raised well circumscribed melanotic iris nodules seen by slit lamp in 90% of NF pts.
4. ADENOMA SEBACEUM (FACIAL
ANGIOFIBROMA
• Numerous discrete smooth glistening round rubbery papules pinhead to pea size, over butterfly area
in the face and nasolabial folds, cheeks, nose, chin.
• DD – Acne vulgaris.
ADENOMA SEBACEUM:MULTIPLE ANGIFIBROMAS OF THE
FACE .ERYTHEMATOUS PAPULES ON THE LOWER HALF OF
FACE-CHEEKS,NASOLABIAL FOLDS, SIDES OF THE NOSE
AND CHIN.
ADENOMA SEBACEUM
5. SHAGREEN PATCH
• Firm pink to skin colored papules, nodules from under the nail bed in toe & finger nails. Seen in
• Congenital macular lesions light pink initially, can progress to red purple nodules over the
• Seen after development of ataxia, around 3 – 6 yrs of age in patients with Ataxia Telangiectasia..
10. CUTANEOUS TELANGIECTASIA
• Venous angiomas over the bridge of nose, butterfly area of the face, ante cubital area, neck, popliteal
fossa.
• Seen in 90% of pts by 5-6 yrs in AT (louis- Bar disease) and also in Von Hippel Lindau disease
IN INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI, CUTANEOUS HYPERPIGMENTED
MARKINGS FOLLOW THE LINES OF BLASCHKO
SPINE
• Note any deformity, abnormality of posture or motility, localized tenderness, or muscle spasm.
• Tuberculosis and neoplasms of the spine may cause a marked kyphosis (gibbus)
• Localized rigidity with a slight scoliosis and absence of the normal lordosis are frequent symptoms of
lumbosacral radiculopathy.
• Tenderness to percussion over the spinous processes, using either the fist or a reflex hammer, can
• The craniovertebral (or craniocervical) junction(CVJ) is a collective term that refers to the occiput(posterior
The Occiput
First Cervical Vertebra (Atlas)
Second Cervical Vertebra (Axis)
Their articulations and
Connecting ligaments
NEURAL TRUCTURES RELATED
ARE –
CAUDAL BRAINSTEM
(MEDULLA)
Fourth ventricle
Rostral part of spinal cord
Lower cranial (9,10,11 {only N that passes through the FM}, 12) & upper cervical
nerves (The C1(SUBOCCIPITAL NERVE) , C2, and C3 nerves with both rami).
In cerebellum, only the tonsils, biventral lobules &the lower part of the vermis (nodule,
uvula & pyramid) ,
CLASSIFICATION
• Described patients who had a short, webbed neck; decreased range of motion (ROM) in the cervical
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