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. 2024 Mar 22;12(3):e7789. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.7789

TABLE 3.

Main causes of myelopathy in pediatric patients.

Congenital Genetic disorders Acquired

  • Spinal dysraphisms

  • Arnold–Chiari malformation

  • Skeletal malformations
  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia
  • Spino‐cerebellar ataxia
  • Adrenomyeloneuropathy
  • Other leukodystrophies
  • Spinal muscular atrophies

  • Traumas

  • Degenerative disorders of the spine

  • Metabolic pathologies

  • Vascular pathologies

  • Inflammatory diseases (transverse myelitis)

  • Autoimmune diseases

  • Infectious diseases

  • Neoplastic diseases