aetiology
Last reviewed 01/2018
Causes may be classified as:
- drug-induced
- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
- carbamazepine
- tricyclic antidepressants
- haloperidol
- neoplastic
- small cell lung cancer
- mesothelioma
- GI tract malignancy
- pancreatic malignancy
- pulmonary
- pneumonia - especially Legionella and Mycoplasma
- tuberculosis
- abscess
- CNS
- tumour
- meningitis, encephalitis
- head injury
- subarachnoid or subdural haemorrhage
- miscellaneous
- guillain–Barre syndrome
- aultiple sclerosis
- acute intermittent porphyria
- idiopathic (1)
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