2024 ABRET ASAP Practice Test Actual Questions and Answers, Complete 100%
- Which cranial nerve travels above the cerebellopontine space?
Answer: trigeminal
- What section of the spinal cord is considered a watershed zone?
Answer: thoracic
- The third ventricle is connected to the fourth ventricle by the...
Answer: aqueduct of Sylvius
- What type of action potentials contribute to the popliteal fossa response?
-orthodromic only -antidromic only -both
Answer: both
- The thalamus and hypothalamus make up the...
Answer: diencephalon
6. A positive Babinski sign is seen as:
-flexion of toes -flexion of foot -fanning of toes -dorsiflexion of foot
Answer: fanning of toes
- A loss of balance upon closing one's eyes while standing upright indicates a
positive -Hoffman's sign -Babinski's sign -Romberg's sign -Lhermitte's sign
Answer: Romberg's sign
- What is likely to result from a positional compression of the brachial plexus?
-thoracic outlet syndrome -friedreich's Ataxia 1 / 4
-multiple sclerosis -acoustic neuroma
Answer: thoracic outlet syndrome
- What is the most common presenting symptom of an intramedullary tu- mor?
-bowel or bladder dysfunction -weakness -sensory loss -pain
Answer: pain
10. Saddle area sensory loss suggests a lesion in which area:
-pelvic plexus -single nerve branch -cauda equina
-spinal cord:
- What is indicated by the presence of unilateral Babinski Signs?
-cerebellar dysfunction -homonymous hemianopsia -pyramidal tract dysfunction -tic douloureux
Answer: pyramidal tract dysfunction
- A babinski sign in an adult
-is abnormal if the toes plantarflex -indicates an upper motor neuron lesion -is normal -is elicited the same way an Oppenheim's sign is elicited
Answer: indicates an upper motor neuron lesion
- Sensory evaluation of the opthalmic, maxillary, and mandibular branches is used
during a neurological exam of which cranial nerve?-glossopharyngeal -trigeminal -facial -oculomotor
Answer: trigeminal
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- Snellen chart
-ocular movement -visual activity -hearing threshold -motor strength
Answer: visual activity
- Which of the following risks described to patient prior to IONM is most
common?-Arithmia -burn -bite injuries -seizures
Answer: Bite injuries
- What part of the spinal cord is most at risk for ischemia?
-cervical -lumbar -thoracic -sacral
Answer: thoracic
- Due to the relative inexcitability of the motor cortex in the pediatric pop-
ulation, direct cortical stimulation may not be suitable in patients less than years old
Answer: 5
- A selective dorsal rhizotomy is associated with
-tethered cord and severing of posterior rootlets -cerebral palsy and the severing of anterior rootlets -tethered cord and severing of anterior rootlets -cerebral palsy and the severing of posterior rootlets
Answer: cerebral palsy and the severing of posterior rootlets
- When monitoring a C6-7 ACDF on a patient with an amputated left wrist,
which of the following is the most appropriate stimulation site for the L UE?-brachial plexus -antecubital fossa -posterior fossa 3 / 4
-ulnar notch
Answer: ulnar notch
- While reviewing the patient's history, the MRI report states "there is tether- ing of
the spinal cord caudal to the conus medullaris." Which of the following statements would be a significant change during monitoring when consider- ing this history?-shift in latency in the MN SSEP -Loss of unilateral pop fossa -loss of unilateral vastus lateralis tcMEP -2 of 4 TOF
Answer: loss of unilateral vastus lateralis TcMEP
- During the untethering of a tethered cord, what is severed?
-anterior rootlets -posterior rootlets -filum terminale
Answer: filum terminale
- Translabyrinthine approach
-cerebello-pontine angle tumor -carotid endarterectomy -temporal lobectomy -parotidectomy
Answer: cerebello-pontine angle tumor
23. To monitor the integrity of the facial nerve during a parotidectomy:
-stimulate and record proximally -stimulate and record distally -stimulate proximally and record distally -stimulate distally and record proximally
Answer: stimulate proximally and record distally
- Which nerve innervates the adductor pollicis muscle?
-tibial -radial -median -ulnar
Answer: ulnar
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