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BACKGROUND
Small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) is one of the deadliest forms of lung cancer due to its poor prognosis upon diagnosis, rapid doubling time, and affinity for metastasis. As 60-70% of patients with SCLC have disseminated disease upon presentation, it is imperative to determine the extent
Paraneoplastic syndromes associated with anal squamous cell carcinoma (scc) are rare. Erythema gyratum repens (egr) is a cutaneous paraneoplastic syndrome with distinctive characteristics. Here, we report the rare case of a 73-year-old woman with a chronic erythematous rash for 11 months associated
A 67 years old man was admitted on July 1979 for nausea, dysphagia and rectal pain. At age 64 he had undergone radiotherapy on the lower lip for an epidermoid carcinoma. He remained then healthy. His medical history was negative with the exception of chronic bronchitis. He had never been exposed to
An 8-year-old boy had nausea and vomiting associated with nystagmus, ataxia, and dysarthria of acute onset. Three years later he had a mass in the anterior mediastinum as a result of Hodgkin disease of mixed cellularity. This association of paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration with Hodgkin disease
A 48-year-old male presented to the emergency room for 2 weeks of joint pain and swelling of his four extremities. His symptoms started suddenly and were quite debilitating. His hands, fingers, knees, and ankles were so swollen and painful that he was unable to get out of bed and had to use crutches
Pheochromocytoma is a rare tumor of chromaffin cells that secrete catecholamines and several cytokines. The clinical manifestations are protean and may include hypertension, weight loss, sweating, palpitation, headache, anxiety, tremor, nausea, vomiting, and hypercalcemia. The tumor can mimic many
OBJECTIVE
To describe a case of cerebellar ataxia associated with renal cell carcinoma.
METHODS
A 53-year-old Caucasian male with a history of Schizophrenia presented with generalized weakness, nausea, vomiting, severe weight loss, and progressively worsening gait difficulty associated with multiple
Sclerosing mesenteritis is a rare disease of the mesentery. Associations with surgery, trauma, autoimmunity and paraneoplastic syndrome have been suggested, but most of the cases remain idiopathic. Diagnosis is often incidental, based upon the finding of a single or multiple mesenteric lesions on
We report a case of primary position downbeating nystagmus due to an occult breast carcinoma in a 57-year-old woman with progressive oscillopsia and truncal ataxia. Acute nausea and vomiting precipitated hospitalization. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain was normal, though a sterile
Urticarial vasculitis (UV) is a rare small vessel vasculitis. UV is often idiopathic but can also present in the context of autoimmune disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus, drug reactions, infections, or a paraneoplastic syndrome. Extracutaneous complications include intestinal ischemic
Thirteen previously untreated patients with extensive small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) were treated with the investigational agent amonafide in a dose of 300 mg/m2 intravenously (IV) over 1 hour daily for 5 consecutive days. No responses were seen in 12 eligible patients. Myelosuppression was only
Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) plays a central role in humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM), which is one of the most frequent paraneoplastic syndromes. PTHrP produced by the tumor acts through a common PTH/PTHrP receptor to promote bone resorption, inhibit calcium excretion from
3 weeks after commencing treatment with estramustine phosphate, typical manifestations of hemolytic-uremic syndrome occurred in a 66-year-old patient with prostate cancer. Urinary tract obstructions were excluded and no renal damage could be identified. An improvement in renal function was achieved
BACKGROUND
Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare cutaneous, aggressive tumor. Although it shares many neuroendocrine features with small cell lung carcinoma, it has only occasionally been reported with paraneoplastic neurological syndromes.
METHODS
A healthy 67-year-old man developed acute ataxia,
The treatment of the rare enteric nervous system (ENS) manifestations of paraneoplastic syndromes, which are most frequently associated with small cell lung cancer (SCLC), is poorly understood and described. Patients with neuroendocrine-derived tumors can develop B-cell reactivity towards the tumor