A case of spontaneous regression of small cell lung cancer with progression of paraneoplastic sensory neuropathy

Lung Cancer

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 291-295

  Hirano, Satoshi ^a   Nakajima, Yoshifumi ^a   Morino, Eriko ^a   Fujikura, Yuji ^a   Mochizuki, Makoto ^a   Takeda, Yuichiro ^a   Sugiyama, Haruhito ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Tanaka, Keiko ^b   Kudo, Koichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical antineuronal antibody; Paraneoplastic sensory neuropathy (PSN); Paraneoplastic syndrome; Small cell lung cancer (SCLC); Spontaneous regression

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ETOPOSIDE; HU ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PARANEOPLASTIC POLYNEUROPATHY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RATS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 34848916763     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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