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Cauda Equina Syndrome
Causes:
 • Large lumbar degenerative disc herniation (central)
 • Severe lumbar spondylosis
 • Neoplasm
Severe lumbar spondylosis ... #CaudaEquina #Syndrome
Cauda Equina Syndrome Overview

Cauda Equina Syndrome:
 • Prevalence: 1:33,000-100,000 ppl/yr
 • Incidence: 1.5-3.4 million ppl/yr
 •
• ankylosing spondylitis ... • Ankylosing spondylitis ... decompression #CaudaEquina
Spondylosis - Pathogenesis and Complications

Vertebral disease that may compress the vertebral canal from all sides
Note: Do
Spondylosis - Pathogenesis ... Do not confuse "spondylosis ... " with "spondylitis ... #Spondylosis #pathophysiology
Causes of Peripheral Weakness with Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Radiculopathy:
 • Disc
 • Spondylosis
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: • Disc • Spondylosis ... Poly-Radiculopathy: • Spondylysis
Causes of Low Back Pain - Differential Diagnosis
Intrinsic Spine: Lumbar strain, Herniated nucleus pulposus, Compression fracture,
Spondylolisthesis, spondylolysis ... , spondylosis Systemic
Back Pain - Differential Diagnosis
Primary Back Pathology:
 • Musculoligamentous injury (a.k.a. lumbosacral strain)
 • Spondylosis (i.e.
lumbosacral strain) • Spondylosis ... e.g. ankylosing spondylitis
Spondylolysis & Spondylolisthesis: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

Pars interarticularis stress fracture (spondylolysis) - most frequently in the
Spondylolysis & ... stress fracture (spondylolysis ... Scoliosis #Spondylolysis
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
ALS, Cervical spondylosis
Seronegative Inflammatory Arthritis - Differential Diagnosis
 • Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis 
 • Infectious Arthritis: Viral, Bacterial,
Spondyloarthropathy: Ankylosing Spondylitis
The inverted or paradoxical triceps reflex consists of flexion of the elbow in response to percussion
as in cervical spondylosis