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Successful Treatment in a Case of Massive Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Paraneoplastic Syndrome

Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2009
Paraneoplastic syndromes of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are not uncommon. However, the prognosis is poor and follow-up and improvement of paraneoplastic syndromes with treatment have been reported rarely.
Atsunori Tsuchiya, Tomoyuki Kubota, Kazuyoshi Takizawa, Kazuki Yamada, Toshifumi Wakai, Yasunobu Matsuda, Terasu Honma, Masashi Watanabe, Yoshio Shirai, Hiroki Maruyama, Minoru Nomoto, Yutaka Aoyagi   +11 more
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18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the diagnosis of suspected paraneoplastic syndromes: A retrospective analysis

World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2020
Paraneoplastic syndromes are a rare clinical presentation of tumor thought to affect 0.01% of patients with cancer. Paraneoplastic syndromes present a diagnostic challenge as a wide variety of signs and symptoms may appear. This study examines the use of
Richard Bresler, Harry William III Schroeder, David Z. Chow, Ruth Lim   +3 more
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Clinical disorders affecting mesopic vision [PDF]

, 2006
Vision in the mesopic range is affected by a number of inherited and acquired clinical disorders. We review these conditions and summarize the historical background, describing the clinical characteristics alongside the genetic basis and molecular ...
Abramowicz M., Ahmed F., Ahmed F., Al-Kubaisy W., Asrat Y., Ayyagari R., Baillie I., Bergen H. R., Berson E., Bloem M., Bordley J., Bret-Dibat C., Brink E., Burstedt M., Burstedt M., Capon M., Carr R., Carr R., Chisholm C., Christian P., Cunier F., de Pee S., DOG, Donnen P., Duke-Elder S., Fishman G., Fuchs A., Fuchs A., Gross-Jendroska M., Guy J., Haidar J., Hartmann E., Hayashi T., Hayashi T., Heckenlively J., Kalloniatis M., Kamei M., Kellner U., Kolling G., Lauber H., Lei B., Lorenz B., Main A., Marmor M., Marmor M., McBain V., Mele L., Milam A., Miyake Y., Miyake Y., Miyake Y., Mizuo A., Morimura H., Nabakwe E., Nettleship E., Oguchi C., Onder C., Parker W., Perlman I., Pesudovs K., Phelan J., Polans A., Polkinghorne P., Ramalho R., Reiner J., Resnikoff S., Ripps H., Rosen D., Rosen D., Rougier M., Ruiz-Martin M., Saunders C., Sawyer R., Schaumberg D., Schemann J., Schlote T., Schubert G., Sharp D., Shaw C., Skinner H., Smith R. A. J., Sommer A., Somner A., Sorsby A., Souied E., Spalton D., Stephenson S., Stockman A., Tabata Y., Takeuchi T., Taren D., Thirkill C., Tielsch J., Underwood B., Uyemura M., Weinstein J., Weiss J., Weiss N., Wolf G., Wolf G., Wolfe J. E.   +100 more
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An unusual presentation of a case of human psittacosis [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Chlamydia psittaci is a gram-negative, obligate intracellular organism. Birds are the main reservoir, but also non-avian domestic animals and humans can be infected.
Boelens, Jerina, De Spiegeleer, Anton, Thijs, Elke, Van Braeckel, Eva, Vande Weygaerde, Yannick, Vanrompay, Daisy, Vermaelen, Karim, Versteele, Charlot   +7 more
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Immune myopathies with perimysial pathology: Clinical and laboratory features [PDF]

, 2018
ObjectiveImmune myopathies with perimysial pathology (IMPP) have a combination of damage to perimysial connective tissue and muscle fiber necrosis, more prominent near the perimysium.
Bucelli, Robert C, Pestronk, Alan
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Stiff Person Syndrome and Acetylcholine Receptor Ganglionic Neuronal Antibodies

Case Reports in Neurology, 2020
The association between stiff person syndrome and paraneoplastic syndromes has been described, linking intracellular or extracellular antibodies. We describe the case of a 64-year-old woman with stiff person syndrome and positivity for acetylcholine ...
Jacobo Lester, Jimmy Cojab, Enrique Klériga   +2 more
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Paraneoplastic endocrine syndromes [PDF]

Endocrine-Related Cancer, 2017
The majority of neoplasms are responsible for symptoms caused by mass effects to surrounding tissues and/or through the development of metastases. However, occasionally neoplasms, with or without endocrine differentiation, acquire the ability to secrete a variety of bioactive substances or induce immune cross-reactivity with the normal tissues that can
Dimitriadis, G.K., Angelousi, A., Weickert, M.O., Randeva, H.S., Kaltsas, G., Grossman, A.   +5 more
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RHEUMATIC MASKS OF PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME

Научно-практическая ревматология, 2001
Summary Analysis of the prevalence and clinical manifestations of paraneoplastic syndrome in 173 patients with malignant tumors admitted in departments internal medicine of Regional Clinical hospital was done.
A. P. Rebrov, I L Alexeyeva, E Y Kondiurina, V V Frontasieva, I F Shergina   +4 more
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Anti-Ri-associated paraneoplastic ophthalmoplegia-ataxia syndrome in a woman with breast cancer: a case report and review of the literature

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2020
Background Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. However, in the management of breast cancer, paraneoplastic neurological syndromes represent a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.
Giuseppe Sena, Gaetano Gallo, Giuseppina Vescio, Denise Gambardella, Stefano de Franciscis, Mariuccia Renne   +5 more
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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 ...
Graus, F., Voltz, R.
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