differential diagnosis
Last reviewed 01/2018
The differential diagnosis in hereditary spastic paraplegia includes:
- multiple sclerosis
- cervical spondylosis with cervical myelopathy
- indolent spinal cord or foramen magnum tumour
- parafalcine meningioma
- Chiari malformation
- chronic myelitides:
- Lyme disease
- SLE
- sarcoid
- AIDS
- motor neurone disease (primary lateral sclerosis)
- tropical spastic paraparesis
spondylotic cervical myelopathy