Congenital malformations, deformities, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99).
- Malformations such as:
- Spina bifida – spinal cleft formation due to incomplete vertebral arch closure.
- Spinal dysraphism (group of congenital malformations due to disturbed closure of the neural tube in the skull, spine and spinal cord), overt – myelomeningocele (meninges and spinal cord bulge out through the vertebral fissure), closed (occult) [Causes of neurogenic urinary bladder dysfunction in children: Prevalence (disease incidence): 85%]
- Tethered cord syndrome – malformation in which the extensions of the spinal cord, the filum terminale, are often fused to the spinal cord sheath by a fibrous cord, so that the lower section of the spinal cord, the conus medullaris, is displaced abnormally low (the so-called conus depression); as a result, neurological disorders may occur; sporadic occurrence.
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).
- Diabetes mellitus (diabetes) with polyneuropathy (nerve damage).
- Funicular myelosis (synonym: funicular spinal disease) – demyelinating disease (degeneration of the posterior cord, lateral cord, and a polyneuropathy/diseases of the peripheral nervous system affecting multiple nerves) caused by vitamin B12 deficiency; symptomatology: motor and sensory deficits that may worsen to paraplegia; encephalopathy (pathological conditions of the brain) of varying degrees.
Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).
- Tabes dorsalis – late stage syphilis (sexually transmitted disease).
Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48).
- Tumors in the area of the spinal cord
Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99)
- Apoplexy (stroke)
- Anterior spinal artery syndrome (synonym: spinal anterior syndrome) – neurological disorders caused by circulatory disturbances of the anterior spinal artery.
- Funicular myelosis (synonym: funicular spinal disease) – demyelinating disease (degeneration of the posterior cord, lateral cord, and a polyneuropathy/diseases of the peripheral nervous system affecting multiple nerves) caused by vitamin B12 deficiency; symptomatology: motor and sensory deficits that may worsen to paraplegia; encephalopathy (pathological conditions of the brain) of varying degrees.
- Infantile cerebral palsy – neurological disorder whose causative damage to the central nervous system occurs before, during or immediately after birth.
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Parkinson’s disease (shaking palsy)
- Multiple sclerosis (MS) – neurological disease that can cause paralysis and spasticity.
- Myelitis (inflammation of the spinal cord), unspecified.
- Sexual dysfunction
- Syringomyelia – neurological disorder that usually begins in middle age and results in cavities in the gray matter of the spinal cord.
- Cerebral sclerosis – arteriosclerotic changes in the brain vessels.
Injuries, poisonings, and other consequences of external causes (S00-T98).
- Spinal cord injury, unspecified
- Trauma to the skull and brain, unspecified
Other
- Operations on the spine, the small pelvis.
- Radiatio (radiotherapy)
