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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:

Overview

[Disease name] must be differentiated from other diseases that cause [clinical feature 1], [clinical feature 2], and [clinical feature 3], such as [differential dx1], [differential dx2], and [differential dx3].

OR

[Disease name] must be differentiated from [[differential dx1], [differential dx2], and [differential dx3].

Differentiating tabes dorsalis from other Diseases

• Tabes dorsalis must be differentiated from other diseases that cause lightning pains, impaired sensation and proprioception, and progressive sensory ataxia and unsteady gait(locomotor ataxia) and Sexual function problems, such as vitamin B12 deficiency, extrinsic spinal cord compression, vitamin E deficiency and multiple sclerosis.

Diseases	History and Symptoms				Physical Examination				Laboratory Findings				Other Findings
	lightning pains	impaired sensation	progressive sensory ataxia	unsteady gait	Argyll-Robertson pupils	impaired vibratory and proprioception sense	broad base and sensory ataxic gait	positive Romberg's test	Lab Test 1	Lab Test 2	Lab Test 3	Lab Test 4
tabes dorsalis	++	++	++	++	++	++	++	++
B12 deficiency	+/-	+	+	+/-	+/-	++	+	+/-
extrinsic spinal cord compression	+/-	+/-	+/-	+/-	-	+/-	+/-	-
Vitamin E deficiency	+/-	+	+	+/-	-	+/-	-	-
multiple sclerosis	+/-	+/-	+/-	+/-	very rare	+/-	-	+/-