Peculiarities of differential diagnostics of inflammatory and noninflammatory myelopathies

Despite the heterogeneous etiology of myelopathies and the stereotyping of the main clinical manifestations of spinal cord lesions, pathognomonic clinical features, signs of involvement of extraspinal structures, features of the course of the pathological process, differences in the presentation of lesions on sagittal and axial magnetic resonance images and laboratory diagnostic data allow differential diagnosis between both inflammatory and non-inflammatory forms, and within these groups themselves.