Diffuse cerebellar atrophy
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Diffuse atrophy of the cerebellum refers to degeneration/reduction from a previously normal cerebellar volume.
Terminology
Cerebellar atrophy slightly differs from cerebellar hypoplasiameaning meaning the cerebellum was not well formed to start with.
Pathology
Aetiology
Diffuse atrophy can result from a variety of causes:
- normal ageing
- alcoholic cerebellar degeneration
- drugs, e.g. phenytoin cerebellar degeneration
- chronic temporal lobe epilepsy (independently from phenytoin use) 7
- cerebellitis
- multisystem atrophy (MSA) 4
- superficial siderosis 8
- ataxia telangiectasia
- Friedreich ataxia
- Fahr disease: atrophy not specific to cerebellum
- paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD)
- olivopontocerebellar atrophy (OPCA) 6
- cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis
- Marinesco-Sjögrensyndrome (MSS) 5
Differential diagnosis
-<p><strong>Diffuse atrophy of the cerebellum</strong> refers to degeneration/reduction from a previously normal cerebellar volume.</p><h4>Terminology</h4><p>Cerebellar atrophy slightly differs from <a href="/articles/cerebellar-hypoplasia-">cerebellar hypoplasia </a>meaning the cerebellum was not well formed to start with.</p><h4>Pathology</h4><h5>Aetiology</h5><p>Diffuse atrophy can result from variety of causes:</p><ul>- +<p><strong>Diffuse atrophy of the cerebellum</strong> refers to degeneration/reduction from a previously normal cerebellar volume.</p><h4>Terminology</h4><p>Cerebellar atrophy slightly differs from <a href="/articles/cerebellar-hypoplasia-">cerebellar hypoplasia</a> meaning the cerebellum was not well formed to start with.</p><h4>Pathology</h4><h5>Aetiology</h5><p>Diffuse atrophy can result from a variety of causes:</p><ul>
-<li>drugs, e.g. phenytoin</li>- +<li>drugs, e.g. <a title="phenytoin cerebellar degeneration" href="/articles/phenytoin-cerebellar-degeneration">phenytoin cerebellar degeneration</a>
- +</li>
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