Medicine MCQs-15

Medicine MCQs-15

All of the following are CORRECT for peripheral neuropathy EXCEPT -

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Toes are involved first then Fingers

Most common inherited cause of peripheral neuropathy -

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Most common type inherited cause of peripheral neuropathy is Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
This is one of the hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies.

In the CNS, including the spinal cord, myelin sheaths are produced by -

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In the CNS, including the spinal cord, myelin sheaths are produced by oligodendrocytes and not by Schwann cells.

ALL of the following causes stocking neuropathy EXCEPT -

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Excess vitamin B6 can cause nerve damage

Which of the following nerve fibers first involved in Peripheral Neuropathy?

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Type C

Which nerve fiber has slowest conduction velocity?

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Type C
C fibers are unmyelinated unlike most other fibers in the nervous system.
This lack of myelination is the cause of their slow conduction velocity

Inverted champagne bottle appearance seen in -

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Lipodermatosclerosis
Charcot-Marie Tooth Disease

ALL of the following are CORRECT about Wallerian degeneration EXCEPT -

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Part of the axon distal to the injury (i.e. farther from the neuron's cell body) degenerates


Wallerian degeneration is an active process of degeneration that results when a nerve fiber is cut or crushed and the part of the axon distal to the injury (i.e. farther from the neuron's cell body) degenerates

Most common polyneuropathy is -

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Most common polyneuropathy is diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy

Megavitamin-B6 syndrome has been reported in doses as low as -

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Megavitamin-B6 syndrome has been reported in doses as low as 24 mg/day

Dysesthesias restricted to the fifth digit and the adjacent one-half of the fourth finger on one hand point to disorder of the -

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Dysesthesias restricted to the fifth digit and the adjacent one-half of the fourth finger on one hand reliably point to disorder of the ulnar nerve, most commonly at the elbow

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