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Common causes of spinal cord compression include trauma, primary or metastatic spinal tumor, intervertebral disk herniation, epidural abscess, and epidural hematoma.

Common causes of acute spinal cord compression include ^[1]

Less common causes are:

↑ Kirshblum SC, Burns SP, Biering-Sorensen F, Donovan W, Graves DE, Jha A, Johansen M, Jones L, Krassioukov A, Mulcahey MJ, Schmidt-Read M, Waring W (2011). "International standards for neurological classification of spinal cord injury (revised 2011)". J Spinal Cord Med. 34 (6): 535–46. doi:10.1179/204577211X13207446293695. PMC 3232636. PMID 22330108.
↑ Kumar S, Wanchu A, Sharma A, Mukherjee K, Radotra BD, Gupta V, Singh S (2010). "Spinal cord compression caused by anaplastic large cell lymphoma in an HIV infected individual". J Cancer Res Ther. 6 (3): 376–8. doi:10.4103/0973-1482.73358. PMID 21119283.
↑ Castel E, Lazennec JY, Chiras J, Enkaoua E, Saillant G (1999). "Acute spinal cord compression due to intraspinal bleeding from a vertebral hemangioma: two case-reports". Eur Spine J. 8 (3): 244–8. PMC 3611171. PMID 10413354.
↑ Templin CR, Stambough JB, Stambough JL (2004). "Acute spinal cord compression caused by vertebral hemangioma". Spine J. 4 (5): 595–600. doi:10.1016/j.spinee.2003.08.034. PMID 15363434.