Pathology EMQ.

Name: Joachim Chan

Theme: Cerebrovascular disease 1

OPTION LIST

A	Acute purulent meningitis	I	Transient ischaemic attack
B	Concussion	J	Transtentorial brain herniation
C	Diffuse axonal injury	K	Watershed strokes
D	Encephalitis	L
E	Extradural haemorrhage	M
F	Intraparenchymal haemorrhage	N
G	Subarachnoid haemorrhage	O
H	Subdural haemorrhage	P

For each scenario below, choose the most appropriate answer from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.

1. Is often caused by hypertension in middle to late adulthood, where there is rupture of small parenchymal vessels often within the basal ganglia

2. Is an important predictor of future infarction.

3. Is caused by hypoperfusion at the periphery of a blood supply which may not necessarily have resulted from vessel occlusion.

4. Is caused by rupture of meningeal vessels, giving a clinical picture of a ‘lucid interval’ with the patient deteriorating rapidly.

5. Is caused by rupture of meningeal vessels, often affecting older people due to brain atrophy

ANSWERS

1. F

2. I

3. K

4. E

5. H