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. 2010 Feb 8;20(1):46–61. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-4431.2009.00495.x

Table 3.

 Differential diagnoses for acute neurological signs

Meningoencephalomyelitis (infectious and idiopathic)
Metabolic derangements
Congenital anomalies (decompensating hydrocephalus, chiari‐like malformation)
Tumors of the meninges (histiocytosis, lymphoma, meningioma)
Intervertebral disc disease
Atlantoaxial subluxation
Cerebrovascular accident
Head trauma
Mycotoxin and neurotoxic ingestion

SRMA, steroid‐responsive meningitis‐arteritis; GME, granulomatous meningocencephalomyelitis.