Thymoma associated with myasthenia and autonomic anti-Hu paraneoplastic neuropathy

Tumori

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 243-247

  Simonelli, Matteo ^a   Banna, Giuseppe Luigi ^b   Santoro, Armando ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b Presidio Ospedaliero Vittorio Emanuele   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anti Hu; Autonomic neuropathy; Myasthenia; Paraneoplastic neurological syndrome; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HU ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RELAPSE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; DRY EYE; DYSPHAGIA; ENTERITIS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GASTROSCOPY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMPLANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; LYMPHOEPITHELIOMA; MALABSORPTION; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEURECTOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; STOMACH MOTILITY; THORAX SURGERY; THYMOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VOMITING; WESTERN BLOTTING; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 67649130819     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089160909500219     Document Type: Article

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