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Causes of Neuropathic Arthritis

  1. Diabetes Mellitis (MTP, tarsometatarsal & inter tarsal joints)
  2. Steroid treatment (hips & knees)
  3. Syringomyelia (shoulder, elbow, wrist & cervical spine)
  4. Tabes Dorsalis (knee, hip, ankle, lumbar spine)
  5. Congenital insensitivity to pain
  6. Myelmeningoceil (ankle & inter tarsal joints)
  7. Leprosy (hands, feet & lower limbs)
  8. Chronic alcoholism (metatarso-phalangeal, inter-phalangeal joints)
  9. Heavy metal poisoning
  10. Neutritional peripheral neuropathy
  11. Neoplastic peripheral neuropathy