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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Myelopathy and Myelitis
INFLAMMATORY
• Infectious: spirochetal, TB, zoster, rabies, HIV, polio, rickettsial, fungal, parasitic
• Noninfectious: idiopathic transverse myelitis, multiple sclerosis
TOXIC/METABOLIC
• Diabetes mellitus (DM), pernicious anemia, chronic liver disease,pellagra, arsenic
TRAUMA, COMPRESSION
• Spinal neoplasm, cervical spondylosis, epidural abscess, epidural hematoma
VASCULAR
• Arteriovenous (AV) malformation, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), periarteritis nodosa, dissecting aortic aneurysm
PHYSICAL AGENTS
• Electrical injury, irradiation
NEOPLASTIC
• Spinal cord tumors, paraneoplastic myelopathy
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