Complicated paraneoplastic neurological syndromes: A report of two patients with small cell or non-small cell lung cancer

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-49

  Hiasa, Yukiko ^a   Kunishige, Makoto ^a,b   Mitsui, Takao ^a   Kondo, Shunsuke ^a,b   Kuriwaka, Rika ^a,b   Shigekiyo, Shizuka ^a   Kanematsu, Takanori ^a   Satake, Nobuo ^a   Bando, Yoshimi ^a   Kondo, Akira ^c   Endo, Itsuro ^a   Oshima, Yasushi ^a   Matsumoto, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Anan Kyoei Hospital   (Japan)

^c Kondo Naika Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti Hu antibody; Diffusion weighted MRI; Lambert Eaton myasthenic syndrome; Opsoclonus ataxia; Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis; Small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL N TYPE; HUD ANTIGEN; NERVE PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CHANNEL GATING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMMUNOLOGY; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; NEURITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPSOCLONUS; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 10744227511     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(03)00059-3     Document Type: Article

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