
Radial Nerve Lesions
Radial nerve lesions typically cause wrist drop and sensory loss over the dorsum of the hand. Commonly due to trauma, compression, or systemic disease.
Radial nerve lesions typically cause wrist drop and sensory loss over the dorsum of the hand. Commonly due to trauma, compression, or systemic disease.
Median nerve lesions cause weakness in forearm pronation, wrist/finger flexion, and thumb opposition, with characteristic sensory loss in the lateral hand
Axillary nerve lesions typically cause deltoid weakness and sensory loss over the lateral shoulder, often following shoulder trauma or dislocation.
Comparative chart of neuralgic headache types including primary stabbing headache, trigeminal neuralgia, cluster headache, and TACs with key features and treatments.
Primary stabbing (ice pick) headache causes brief, sharp head pains without autonomic features, requiring imaging to exclude other causes and possible indomethacin therapy.
Post dural puncture headache is a positional headache following lumbar puncture or spinal anaesthesia, managed with analgesia, caffeine, and possibly a blood patch.
Migraine is a common neurovascular headache managed with triptans, antiemetics, and lifestyle measures, requiring clinical diagnosis and exclusion of red flags.
Tension headache is the most common headache type, often stress-related and mild, diagnosed clinically and treated with simple analgesia and stress management.
Cluster headache is a severe trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia with unilateral pain and autonomic features, managed with oxygen, triptans, and preventive therapies.
Summary of hypoglossal nerve (CN XII) anatomy, function, clinical signs and causes of twelfth cranial nerve lesions, including central and peripheral pathology.
Overview of accessory nerve (CN XI) anatomy, function, causes and clinical signs of eleventh cranial nerve lesions, with a focus on trauma to the posterior triangle.
Overview of vagus nerve anatomy, innervation, clinical examination, and common causes of tenth cranial nerve lesions including central and peripheral pathologies.