An interesting collection of paraneoplastic syndromes in a patient with a malignant thymoma

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kidher, Emaddin S ^a   Briceno, Natalia ^b   Taghi, Ali ^c   Chukwuemeka, Andrew ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; GADOLINIUM; HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUODENUM BIOPSY; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; LETHARGY; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; POLYMYOSITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84865282322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.02.2012.5790     Document Type: Article

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