Health Dictionary
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Spinal cord lesions
Introduction
Spinal cord disease may refer to:
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
- Adrenoleukodystrophy
- Adult-onset ALD
- Alexander disease
- Anencephaly
- Brown-Sequard syndrome
- Classic childhood ALD
- Female carrier ALD
- Friedreich’s ataxia
- Leukodystrophy
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy
- Multiple sclerosis
- Myelitis
- Neural tube defect
- Paralysis
- Paraplegia
- Quadriplegia
- Spina bifida
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal cord tumor
- Spinal stenosis
- Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord
- Syringomyelia
- Tethered spinal cord syndrome
- Transverse myelitis