STATE EXAMINATION QUESTIONS - NEUROLOGY
GENERAL NEUROLOGY AND AUXILIARY METHODS
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Motor function disorders
Upper and lower motor neuron lesions, mixed lesion
Topical diagnosis in upper motor neuron lesion (cortex, internal capsule brain
stem, spinal cord)
Topical diagnosis in lower motor neuron lesion (nuclear and radicular,
peripheral nerve, neuromuscular junction)
Cortical dysfunctions in higher nervous activity
Disorders of speech and language
Impairment of the frontal lobe
Impairment of the parietal lobe
Impairment of the temporal lobe
Impairment of the occipital lobe
Disorders of sensory functions
Topical diagnosis in sensory impairment
Brain stem lesions, signs, localization
Bulbar and pseudobulbar palsy
Disturbances of vision as a neurologic problem
Topographic classification of visual field defects
Disturbances of occular movement
Facial palsy, upper and lower neuron lesions
Cerebellar syndromes
Extrapyramidal syndromes
Features of a spinal cord lesion. Topographic classification
Syndromes in spinal cord lesions
Conus lesion and cauda equina syndrome
Brown - Séquard syndrome
Syringomyelia and central spinal cord lesion
Principle of electroencephalography. The normal EEG (also in wakefulness,
drowsiness and sleep). Activation procedures.
The abnormal EEG, diagnostic value
EEG in epilepsy (in seizure disorders)
EEG in structural cerebral lesions
Principles of electromyography. The normal EMG.
EMG in neurologic diagnosis
Neuroradiological methods (skull and vertebral column X-rays, angiography,
myelography)
Computed tomography and SPECT
Magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound in neurology
The cerebrospinal fluid and its examination, diagnostic value
Cerebrospinal fluid in inflammatory diseases and in multiple sclerosis
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STATE EXAMINATION QUESTIONS – NEUROLOGY
SPECIAL NEUROLOGY
1. Peripheral facial palsy, causes, treatment
2. Parkinson's disease and extrapyramidal syndromes (cause, treatment)
3. Intracranial tumours, general symptoms and signs. Raised intracranial pressure,
ancillary investigations in tumours.
4. Intracranial tumours, histological classification, classification according to site,
treatment
5. Glioma (glioblastoma multiforme, astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma)
6. Meningiomas
7. Pituitary adenoma, craniopharyngioma
8. Tumours of the posterior fossa, cerebello - pontine angle lesions, acoustic
neurinoma (neurilemmoma)
9. Tumours of the spinal cord
10. Atherosclerosis, cerebrovascular disease and hypertensive encephalopathy
11. Stroke, causes and treatment
12. Cerebral ischaemia, examinations, treatment
13. Intracerebral haemorrhage, causes, treatment
14. Subarachnoid haemorrhage, causes, symptoms and signs, investigations,
management, treatment
15. Craniocerebral trauma
16. Cerebral concussion
17. Cerebral contusion
18. Epidural haematoma
19. Subdural haematoma
20. Traumatic lesions of the spinal cord
21. Epilepsy, classification
22. Generalized epileptic seizures
23. Inflammatory diseases of the brain and its coverings
24. Meningitides
25. Encephalitides
26. Polyradiculitis Guillain-Barré
27. Myopathies (dystrophic myopathies, myotonia, myositides)
28. Myasthenia gravis, clinical features, investigations, treatment
29. Multiple sclerosis, clinical features, investigations, treatment
30. Headache and facial pain, treatment
31. Motor neuron disease (ALS)
32. Lesions of peripheral nerves - general features, ancillary investigations,
classification, quantification of severity, regenaretion
33. Radial and ulnar nerve palsy, median nerve palsy and carpal tunnel syndrome,
causes, features, treatment
34. Femoral nerve lesion, posterior tibial nerve palsy, peroneal nerve palsy
35. Spinal radicular syndromes and disc disease causing them. Disc herniation of the
cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine
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SPECIAL NEUROLOGY
36. Common disc herniations, investigations, treatment
37. Disorders of vertebral column (vertebrogenic pain syndromes)
38. Diagnostic process and therapy in stroke
39. Neurological complications in metabolic disorders
40. Making diagnosis in headache
41. Clinical manifestations of reticular formation disorders. Sleep disorders
42. Differential diagnosis in coma, causes, investigations
43. Common intoxications involving the nervous systém (also organic solvents' effect)
44. Neurotoxic effect of heavy metals (Pb, Hg, Mn and others)
45. Carbon monoxid intoxication
46. Treatment of epileptic seizures
47. Treatment of pain disorders of vertebral column and in disc herniation (also in
cauda equina syndrome)
48. Cranio-cerebral and vertebral column metastases
49. Central and peripheral neurological disturbances in metabolic disorders
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