Foot Drop Differential Diagnoses
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Unilateral Foot Drop
- Deep peroneal neuropathy
- Common peroneal neuropathy
- Anterior compartmental syndrome of the leg
- Sciatic neuropathy
- Lumbosacral plexopathy (lumbosacral trunk)
- L5 radiculopathy
- L4 radiculopathy (rarely)
- Conus medullaris lesion (rarely)
- Multifocal motor neuropathy (usually peroneal)
- Vasculitic neuropathy (usually peroneal)
- Hereditary Neuropathy with liability to Pressure Palsies (HNPP)a
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Poliomyelitis and postpoliomyelitis syndrome
- Cortical or subcortical parasagittal cerebral lesion
Bilateral Foot Drop
- Myopathies
- Distal myopathies (including distal forms of LGMD)
- Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy
- Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
- Myotonic dystrophy
- Neuropathies
- Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block
- Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP)
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
- Bilateral peroneal neuropathies
- Bilateral sciatic neuropathies (rare)
- Bilateral lumbosacral plexopathies (rare)
- Vasculitic neuropathy
- Radiculopathies
- Bilateral L5 radiculopathies (cauda equina lesion)
- Conus medullaris lesion
- Anterior horn cell disorders
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Poliomyelitis and the postpoliomyelitis syndrome
- Cerebral lesions
- Bilateral cortical or subcortical parasagittal lesions
