Aetiology
The common causes of paraplegia are:
- trauma
- demyelination
- malignant disease
- spondylosis
Rare causes of paraplegia include:
- cerebral palsy
- spinal cord infarction / spinal artery occlusion
- "bends"
- subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord
- syringomyelia
- motor neurone disease
- intrinsic cord glioma
- radiation myelopathy
- arterio-venous malformation
- extradural abscess
- prolapse of a thoracic intervertebral disc
- neurofibroma
- meningioma
- atlanto-axial subluxation in rheumatoid arthritis
- hereditary spastic paraplegia
- poliomyelitis
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- sagittal sinus syndrome
- hysteria
Related pages
- Trauma
- Demyelinating diseases
- Spinal tumours
- Spondylosis
- Cerebral palsy
- Anterior spinal artery infarction
- Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord
- Syringomyelia
- Motor neurone disease
- Radiation myelopathy
- Arteriovenous malformation (spinal)
- Arteriovenous malformation (cerebral)
- Uterine retroversion
- Spinal extradural abscess
- Thoracic disc prolapse
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Hereditary spastic paraplegia
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)
- Sagittal sinus thrombosis
- Hysteria
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