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In medicine, nervous system paraneoplastic syndrome are "degenerative or inflammatory conditions affecting the central or peripheral nervous system that develop in association with a systemic neoplasm without direct invasion by tumor. They may be associated with circulating antibodies that react with the affected neural tissue."[1][2][3]
Classification
- Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
- Limbic encephalitis
- Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome
- Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
- Paraneoplastic polyneuropathy
- Transverse myelitis
References
- ↑ Anonymous (2024), Nervous system paraneoplastic syndrome (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- ↑ Darnell RB, Posner JB (2003). "Paraneoplastic syndromes involving the nervous system.". N Engl J Med 349 (16): 1543-54. DOI:10.1056/NEJMra023009. PMID 14561798. Research Blogging.
- ↑ Dalmau J, Gonzalez RG, Lerwill MF (2007). "Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 4-2007. A 56-year-old woman with rapidly progressive vertigo and ataxia.". N Engl J Med 356 (6): 612-20. DOI:10.1056/NEJMcpc069035. PMID 17287482. Research Blogging.