Table 1.
Differential Diagnosis of Extrapyramidal syndrome.
Hereditary disorders |
• Wilson's disease |
• Huntington's disease |
Vascular parkinsonism |
• Infarcts |
• Vasculitis |
Structural lesions |
• Gliomas |
• Meningioma |
Hypoxic injury Infections |
• ADEM(acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis) |
• Postencephalitic |
• Creutzfeldt-jakob disease |
Metabolic |
• Central and Extrapontine myelinolysis |
• Hypoparathyroidism |
Mitochondrial cytopathies Posttraumatic Drugs |
phenothiazines, butyrophenones, thioxanthenes Metoclopramide, methyldopa, reserpine, verapamil, flunarizine, amiodarone. |
Toxins |
carbon monoxide, cyanide, mptp, manganese. |