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Diagnosis and treatment of paraneoplastic neurological disorders [PDF]
, 2004 In about two thirds of cases, patients with paraneoplastic neurological disorders present to the neurologist without a known tumor. Due to the ongoing immune response, this tumor tends to stay biologically relatively benign, and therefore difficult to ...
Voltz, R., Graus, F.
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Paraneoplastic glomerular disease. Case study
, 2022 The case of membranous nephropathy manifested in nephrotic syndrome in a patient, newly diagnosed with lung cancer, is reported. Brief data on the paraneoplastic glomerular disease are provided, the need for cancer screening in elderly patients with ...
Ekaterina S. Stolyarevich +5 more
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Paraneoplastic Disorders [PDF]
Continuum, 2015 Paraneoplastic disorders are autoimmune diseases associated with risks for specific cancers and marked by specific autoantibodies. They cause diverse clinical syndromes of the central and peripheral nervous systems.In the peripheral nervous system, autoimmunity to synaptic or axonal proteins has long been recognized to associate with specific cancers ...
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Cancer-associated retinopathy: an autoimmune retinopathy
Universa Medicina, 2016 Cancer-associated retinopathy (CAR) is a paraneoplastic syndrome most commonly associated with small-cell carcinoma of the lung, but also less frequently reported in patients with breast, endometrial, and other cancers. A paraneoplastic syndrome (PNS) is
Nurbuanto Tradjutrisno
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JEADV Clinical Practice, 2023 Paraneoplastic erythroderma (PE) is a rare and potentially life‐threatening inflammatory condition associated with malignancy. PE may potentially develop due to antibodies produced against tumoral antigens that cross‐react with epidermal structures.
Nihan Erden +11 more
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Autoimmune Encephalitis: A Physician’s Guide to the Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management
Brain Sciences, 2022 The rapidly expanding spectrum of autoimmune encephalitis in the last fifteen years is largely due to ongoing discovery of many neuronal autoantibodies.
Arpan Patel +4 more
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, 2022 Paraneoplastic pemphigus is a rare but severe potentially fatal autoimmune disease characterized by severe stomatitis and a variety of cutaneous manifestations in association with an underlying neoplasia. Pulmonary involvement may also occur. The pathogenesis involves the production of autoantibodies against desmogleins, plakins and the protease ...
Poot, Angelique M. +4 more
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2018 Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting oedema (RS3PE) is a rare syndrome that affects the elderly. Although the aetiology is not fully understood, it has been related to multiple diseases including cancer.
Edgar Pratas +6 more
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Dermatomyositis: A Rare Presentation of Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Journal of Scientific Innovation in Medicine, 2021 Background: Dermatomyositis (DM) is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy with various cutaneous manifestations. There is a strong association between DM and malignancy with an estimated 5–7 fold increase in cancer incidence in DM patients compared to the ...
Iman Makki +5 more
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BMJ Case Reports, 2023 A man in his early 70s presented with stiffness and aching in the shoulder and pelvic girdles. His C reactive protein level was elevated at 116 mg/L, leading to an initial diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica. Treatment with prednisone at 20 mg/day provided limited improvement and relapses recurred despite concomitant immunosuppressive agents. Extensive
Uri Arad, Charles Werren, Douglas White
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