Diseases which should be differentiated from motor neuron disease / 中国实用内科杂志

ABSTRACT

Motor neuron disease(MND)is a kind of degenerating disease which involves the upper and lower motor neurons.Irreversible muscle weakness,muscle atrophy and pyramidal sign are its main clinical manifestations.Diagnosis of MND should be made with caution because no effective treatment can change the unceasing course.This article specifies the diseases which mimic MND:cervical spondylosis,Hirayama disease,multifocal motor neuropathy,monoclonal gammopathy with motor neuropathy,paraneoplastic motor neuron syndrome,post-polio syndrome,spinal muscular atrophy,Kennedy syndrome and diabetic amyotrophy.Wish it do some favor to clinical doctors.