Marantic endocarditis (NBTE) with systemic emboli and paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration: Uncommon presentation of ovarian cancer

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-83

  Singh, Veerpal ^a   Bhat, Ishfaq ^a   Havlin, Kathleen ^a  

^a Evanston Northwestern Healthcare ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Marantic endocarditis; Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis; Ovarian cancer; Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration; Paraneoplastic syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CA 125 ANTIGEN; CARBOPLATIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIAZEPAM; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PACLITAXEL; PROMETHAZINE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIPLOPIA; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOCARDITIS; FALLING; FATALITY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HEADACHE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG EMBOLISM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY ADENOCARCINOMA; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PARANEOPLASTIC CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247534226     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-006-9306-y     Document Type: Article

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