PES CAVUS

neurological disease:

peroneal muscular atrophy (hereditary sensorimotor neuropathy)

Friedreich's ataxia (may be only finding in �forme fruste� of disease)

Refsum's disease

leprosy

spinal dysraphism / syringomyelia

polio

polyneuritis

cerebral palsy

meningomyelocoele

tibial nerve lesion [paralysis of small muscles of foot]

non-neurological causes:

muscular dystrophy

contracture of plantar fascia [as in Dupuytren's contracture]

idiopathic

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