from: back pain

differential diagnosis of back pain

• Musculoskeletal ddx of back pain

• Spinal cord (myelopathy) nerve root (radiculopathy):

• Degenerative/traumatic: disc herniation, foraminal or lumbar stenosis, spondylolisthesis

• Neoplastic: lung, breast, prostate, RCC, thyroid, colon, multiple myeloma, lymphoma

• Infectious: osteomyelitis/discitis, epidural abscess, zoster, Lyme, CMV, HIV, spinal TB

• Vascular: spinal cord ischemia, dural AV fistula

• referred pain from visceral disease of back pain

• sacroiliitis