Misdiagnosis and etiology of the cervical myelopathy and motor neuron diseases

English Keywords:Cervical myelopathy,Motor neuron diseases,Diagnosis,Relationship,

English Abstract:

  patients that had been diagnosed as motor neuron diseases(MND) by neurologists were reexamined. Among them, 11 cases were diagnosed cervical myelopathy(CM), and 9 cases coexisted of CM. The authors considered=(1) CM usually was misdiagnosed as MND; (2) th