MOA Annual meeting
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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Diff dx: Neurogenic joint



- See: Neuropathic Shoulder

    Diabetes mellitus (diabetic charcot foot and ankle)
    Tabes dorsalis
    Syringomelia
    Meningomyelocele
    Leprosy
    Tumors of the spinal cord
    Degenerative spinal disease with nerve root compression
    Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord
    Amyloid neuropathy
    Giantism w/ hypertrophic neuropathy
    Impaired pain sensitivity due to use of:
            intraarticular and systemic steroids
            phenylbutazone
            indomethacin
            excessive ETOH
    Congenital insensitivity to pain
    Familial hereditary neuropathies
            Charcot Marie Tooth disease
            Hereditary sensory neuropathy
            Hypertrophic intersitial neuropathy (Dejerine-Scottas disease)
            Familial dysautonomia (Riley day syndrome)
            Familial amyloid neuropathy

Sensory Neuropathy:
    - diabetic neuropathy
    - paraneoplastic sensory neuropathy
    - paraneoplastic mononeuritis multiplex
    - neoplastic neuropathy
    - chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
    - sarcoid neuropathy
    - postinfectious small fiber sensory neuropathy
    - amyloid neuropathy
    - lyme neuropathy
    - HIV neuropathy
    - leprous neuropathy
    - cryoglobulinemic neuropathy (associated with Raynaud's syndrome)
    - Vasculitic neuropathy (Sjögren's syndrome)











A short history of neuropathic arthropathy.

Surgical arthrodesis of the neuropathic foot. A salvage procedure.

Neurogenic arthropathy of the hand and wrist.
      RD Parker and AI Froimson.   J. Hand Surg.   Vol 11-A. 1986. p 706-710.

Ten steps in characterizing and diagnosing patients with peripheral neuropathy.
      Dyck PJ, Dyck PJB, Grant IA, Fealey RD. Neurology 1996;47:10-17










Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.