CLINICAL-UPPER LIMB WEAKNESS

SUMMARY

CENTRAL
1. Motor neuron disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (MND/ALS)
2. Cervical myelopathy

NEUROPATHY
3. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
4. Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN)
5. Plexopathy: radiation (painless) or malignant infiltration (painful) or inflammatory
6. Mononeuritis multiplex

NMJ
7. Myasthenia gravis

MYOPATHY
8. Inflammatory myopathy: polymyositis/dermatomyositis/inclusion body myositis, statin myopathy
9. Other myopathy: dystrophies, metabolic/steroid myopathy

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