differential diagnosis
Last reviewed 04/2023
the differential diagnoses of parkinsonism includes (1):
- Parkinson’s disease (2)
- Alzheimer’s disease
- dementia will be prominent from early in the disease
- dementia will be prominent from early in the disease
- multiple cerebral infarction
- drug-induced parkinsonism
- phenothiazines
- metoclopramide
- other degenerative parkinsonian syndromes:
- progressive supranuclear palsy
- Steele–Richardson–Olszewski syndrome
- multiple system atrophy
- Shy–Drager syndrome
- olivopontocerebellar atrophy
- striatonigral degeneration
- progressive supranuclear palsy
- essential tremor
- hydrocephalus
- trauma - 'punch drunk' syndrome
- Wilson's disease
- post encephalitic parkinsonism - encephalitis lethargica
- toxins:
- carbon monoxide
- manganese
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