Treatable Spinal Cord Disorders
| Compressive |
| Epidural, intradural, or intramedullary neoplasm |
| Epidural abscess |
| Epidural hemorrhage |
| Cervical spondylosis |
| Herniated disk |
| Posttraumatic compression by fractured or displaced vertebra or hemorrhage |
| Vascular |
| Arteriovenous malformation and dural fistula |
| Antiphospholipid syndrome and other hypercoagulable states |
| Inflammatory |
| Multiple sclerosis |
| Neuromyelitis optica |
| Transverse myelitis |
| Sarcoidosis |
| Sjögren-related myelopathy |
| Systemic lupus erythematosus-related myelopathy |
| Vasculitis |
| Infectious |
| Viral: VZV, HSV-1 and 2, CMV, HIV, HTLV-1, others |
| Bacterial and mycobacterial: Borrelia, Listeria, syphilis, others |
| Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
| Parasitic: schistosomiasis, toxoplasmosis |
| Developmental |
| Syringomyelia |
| Meningomyelocele |
| Tethered cord syndrome |
| Metabolic |
| Vitamin B12 deficiency (subacute combined degeneration) |
| Copper deficiency |
Abbreviation: HTLV, human T-cell lymphotropic virus.