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Neurologic examination
Neurological examination
A neurological examination is the assessment of sensory neuron and motor responses, especially reflexes, to determine whether the nervous system is impaired. It can be used both as a screening tool and as an investigative tool, the former of which when examining the patient when there is no expected neurological deficit and the latter of which when examining a patient where you do expect to find abnormalities. If a problem is found either in an investigative or screening process then further tests can be carried out to focus on a particular aspect of the nervous system...
Neurologic examination - List of case studies
- Motor Neuropathy
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lower limbs clinically and all 4 limbs electrically. The neurologic examination showed left lower and left upper limb hyposthenia with mainly ...
- Diffuse Intra-Axial expansive Lesion of the Enchephalic Trunk not surgically investigated_4
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room of the Trento Hospital, where a neurological examination was carried out with finding of a right hand side mouth ... tumor is not possible without devastating, catastrophic neurologic injury, or a bad outcome . Tumors such these diffusely ... typical brainstem glioma, vasogenic edema, hydrocephalus, neurologic injury, astrocytoma, pilocytic astrocytoma, fibrillary astrocytoma, ...
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome / Acute Myeloradiculoneuritis
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have reached their pick within less than a day. On examination the left lower limb was plegic and the right lower limb was ... 2. At that stage I think that there is no specific neurologic therapy. It seems that the patient has remained with a permanent neurologic sequelae of the acute insult, and that the disease is not expected ...
- Inflammatory Demyelinizing Disease
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in the left eye of 3-4/10. Suspecting, for this reason, a neurologic cause, more detailed diagnosis were performed (visual field and VEP) ... level of the right semioval center. The conclusions of the examination gave evidence for: “compatibly with the clinical-anamnestic ...
- 1st and 2nd Motor Neuron Disease of ALS-type
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fall in the ward . At a general objective examination: PA: 140/80; FC: 80 b/min R. No alterations on various organs and apparatus. At the objective neurologic examination: the patient is watchful, oriented in time, ...
- Erectile Dysfunction in Diabetes
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Dysfunction condition the patient underwent a specialist's examination on 07/2008. In this occasion he shows: - ... sensation,as a baseline, to learn the exact extent of the neurologic deficit. The lack of response to Viagra, Levitra and Cialis, ...
- Chronic talalgia of undetermined nature
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potentials . Unexcitable right sural nerve. The EMG examination shows deficit in recruitment of the motor units in right ... unfortunately is not clear, the pain is probably of neurologic origin, which I can't put my finger on. The medullary edema (which I ...
- List of Examinations
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in case studies throughout the site. click on an examination name to view a list of all articles it is mentioned in | A | ... Neurogenic changes in muscles Neuroimaging Neurologic examination Neurological assessment Neurological check-up ...
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP)_1
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nerves at the elbow level on both sides, and the clinical examination found sensory loss affecting mainly light touch on both hands. EMG ... the Legnano Hospital from for medical tests. The neurologic exam at admission highlighted: distal hypoesthesia of upper limbs ...
- Motor Neuropathy – additional opinion
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with lower motor neuropathy affecting all 4 limbs. The neurologic examination showed left limb hyposthenia, left upper limb hypotrophy and ...