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. 2006 Sep 10;6:33. doi: 10.1186/1471-2377-6-33

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.