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Differential Diagnosis For Decerebrate posture
List of current finding(s):
Decerebrate posture
- Trauma Causes
- Trauma, brain
- Brain injury, massive
- Traumatic Brain Hemorrhagic Necrosis
- Infectious Disorders (Specific Agent)
- Encephalitis, viral
- Encephalitis, Dawsons/inclusion body
- Encephalitis, Eastern equine
- Encephalitis, Murray valley
- Encephalitis, St Louis B
- Encephalitis, Western equine
- West Nile fever/encephalitis
- Encephalitis, California
- Encephalitis, equine, Venezuelan
- Encephalitis, Japanese B
- Encephalitis, powassan
- Fungus brain abscess
- Allergic, Collagen, Auto-Immune Disorders
- Encephalitis, post viral
- Metabolic, Storage Disorders
- Kernicterus
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Fucosidosis (Anderson-Fabry)
- Hereditary, Familial, Genetic Disorders
- Leukodystrophy, Krabbe
- Anatomic, Foreign Body, Structural Disorders
- Subdural hematoma
- Brain stem herniation/peduncle/tonsils
- Falx hernia, cerebral
- Herniation temporal lobe/tentorum
- Intracranial mass effect
- Arteriosclerotic, Vascular, Venous Disorders
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Reference to Organ System
- Cerebral edema
- Pathophysiologic
- CNS lesion/Intercollicular level
- Synonyms
- Decerebrate posture (finding), DECEREBRATE POSTURING, Decerebrate Posturings, Posturing Decerebrate, Posturings Decerebrate
- Definition
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Decebrate Posturing results from damage to the Upper Brain Stem. In this posture, the arms are adducted & extended, with the wrists pronated & the fingers flexed. The legas are stiffly extended, with plantar flexion of the feet.
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- NEJM (The New England Journal of Medicine)
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