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Muscle Weakness Clinical Picture
NMS diagnosis
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Health Care
Professional
04/21/2013

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Term
Numbness in fingers and toes and alcohol abuse
Definition
Alcoholic Neuropathy
Term
Unilateral facial paralysis, can’t wrinkle the brow
Definition
Bell’s palsy
Term
Lower limb weakness, bowel, bladder, sexual dysfunction
Definition
Cauda Equina Syndrome
Term
UMN paralysis with scissors gait from birth
Definition
Cerebral palsy
Term
Sudden onset unilateral paralysis, can wrinkle brow
Definition
Cerebrovascular Accident
Term
LMN lesion in upper limb, UMN lesion in lower limb, Lhermitte’s +
Definition
Cervical myelopathy
Term
Drop foot, wasting of the anterior leg compartment
Definition
Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome
Term
Proximal weakness, buffalo hump, moon-face
Definition
Cushing’s disease
Term
Polyuria, polydypsia, glove/stocking anesthesia
Definition
Diabetic neuropathy
Term
Waiter’s tip appearance after difficult vertex delivery
Definition
Erb’s palsy
Term
Ascending bilateral flaccid paralysis post-viral or post-vaccination
Definition
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Term
Ptosis, miosis and anhydrosis
Definition
Horner’s syndrome
Term
Cramps, facial spasms and +Chvostek’s sign
Definition
Hypoparathyroidism
Term
Claw hand deformity after difficulty breech delivery
Definition
Klumpke’s paralysis
Term
Anorexia, blue gum line, constipation, dementia
Definition
Lead Poisoning
Term
UMN and LMN lesions in 3 limbs, dysphagia
Definition
Lou Gehrig’s disease
Term
Scanning speech, intention tremor, Nystagmus [Charcot’s triad]
Definition
Multiple sclerosis
Term
Bilateral ptosis, diplopia, muscle weakness with repetitive use
Definition
Myasthenia gravis
Term
Flaccid paralysis in a limb following a viral infection
Definition
Poliomyelitis
Term
Sensory ataxia, positive Romberg in a strict vegetarian
Definition
Posterior lateral sclerosis
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