Title: Cervical Spine Disease<br/>Author: Danya Khoujah<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/739/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><div>
Cervical spondylotic disease is the most common cause of myelopathy in patients over the age of 55 years and accounts for 25% of all hospitalizations for spastic quadriparesis.</div>
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It can be confused with lumbar spine disease as the most common presentation is a slowly progressive spastic gait dysfunction with 15-20% presenting with bladder disturbance.</div>
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<u><strong>Take Home Message:</strong></u> Don’t rush to localizing a lesion to the lumbar spine without performing a thorough neuro exam. </div>
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