PARAPLEGIA

 

• Trauma: penetrating wounds to motor cortex, fracture-dislocation of vertebral column with compression of spinal cord or cauda equina. prolapsed disk, electrical injuries.

• Neoplasm: parasagittal region, vertebrae, meninges, spinal cord, cauda equina, Hodgkin's disease, NHL, leukemic deposits, pelvic neoplasms.

• Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating disorders.

• Mechanical compression of spinal cord, cauda equina, or lumbosacral plexus: Paget's disease, kyphoscoliosis, herniation of intervertebral disk, spondylosis, ankylosing spondylitis, RA, aortic aneurysm.

• Infections: spinal abscess, syphilis, TB, poliomyelitis, leprosy.

• Thrombosis of superior sagittal sinus.

• Polyneuritis: Guillain-Barre syndrome, diabetes, alcohol, beriberi, heavy

• metals.

• Heredofamilial muscular dystrophies.   

• ALS.

• Congenital and familial conditions: syringomyelia, myelomeningocele, myelodysplasia.

• Hysteria.