A case of occult breast cancer with paraneoplastic polyneuropathy

Breast Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 187-191

  Hanaoka, Takaomi ^a   Fujimori, Minoru ^a   Shingu, Kiyoshi ^a   Hirose, Satoshi ^a   Maruyama, Masayuki ^a   Ito, Ken Ichi ^a   Asanuma, Kazuhiko ^a   Kasuga, Yoshio ^a   Kobayashi, Shinya ^a   Iwahashi, Teruaki ^a   Inoue, Atsushi ^a   Koh, Chang Sung ^a   Matsuyama, Ikuo ^b   Tsuchiya, Shinichi ^b   Amano, Jun ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Nagano Cancer Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti neural antibody; Immunohistochemistry; Occult breast cancer; Paraneoplastic polyneuropathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008558614     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02967075     Document Type: Article

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