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cerebellar signs
Signs of cerebellar dysfunction.
Etiology:
1) congenital
a) cerebral palsy
b) developmental anomaly
- Chiari malformation
- cerebellar dysplasia, cerebellar aplasia
- Dandy-Walker syndrome
c) hereditary disorders
- Friedrich's ataxia
2) acquired
a) demyelination: multiple sclerosis
b) vascular
- ischemic stroke
- intracranial hemorrhage, hemorrhagic stroke
- vascular malformation
- vasculitis
c) neoplasm
- primary
- astrocytoma
- hemangioblastoma
- secondary
d) infection
- viral encephalitis
- tuberculous meningitis
e) metabolic disorders
- thiamine deficiency
- hypothyroidism
f) xeonbiotics: drugs & toxins
- phenytoin
- barbiturates
- alchoholism
- lead poisoning
g) paraneoplastic, cerebellar degeneration associated with
- lung carcinoma
- breast carcinoma
h) trauma
Clinical manifestations:
- hypotonia
- lack of co-ordination with disdianochokinesia
- nystagmus
- dysarthria, both scanning & explosive speech
- gait ataxia: postural instability & broad-based gait
- intention tremor)
Related
cerebellar ataxia (cerebellar syndrome, cerebellar dysmetria)
cerebellar disease
cerebellum
General
sign/symptom
References
- Differential Diagnosis of Common Signs in Neurology
http://www.mrcophth.com/neurology11.htm