Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration: Initial presentation in a patient with anaplastic T-cell lymphoma, associated with ichthyosiform cutaneous lesions

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1369-1371

  Rodis, Dionisis G ^a   Liatsos, George D ^a,b   Moulakakis, Antonios ^a   Pirounaki, Maria ^a   Tasidou, Anna ^b  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIUM; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; GLUCOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN; VINCRISTINE; VITAMIN D; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; VAP CYCLO PROTOCOL; VAP-CYCLO PROTOCOL;

ANEMIA; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ATAXIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CEREBELLUM DYSSYNERGIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSKINESIA; DYSMETRIA; DYSPHAGIA; EATING; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; GAIT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; ICHTHYOSIFORM CUTANEOUS LESION; ICHTHYOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; NYSTAGMUS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SPLENOMEGALY; STANDING; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TREMOR; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WALKING; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FATALITY; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DOXORUBICIN; DYSARTHRIA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEVER; HUMANS; ICHTHYOSIS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOMA, PRIMARY CUTANEOUS ANAPLASTIC LARGE CELL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PARANEOPLASTIC CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PREDNISOLONE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 77649277094     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190903030858     Document Type: Letter

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