ABSENT LOWER LIMB REFLEXES WITH EXTENSOR PLANTAR RESPONSE

diabetes mellitus + cervical myelopathy

motor neurone disease

Friedreich's ataxia

taboparesis (= tabes dorsalis [extensor plantars] + general paresis [absent reflexes])

subacute combined degeneration of cord (B12 deficiency)

conus medullaris syndrome (but not cauda equina compression which gives only LMN lesions)

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