aetiology
Last reviewed 01/2018
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
anterior spinal artery infarction
subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord
arteriovenous malformation (spinal)