Paraneoplastic Neurologic Syndrome: Three Case Reports

Hypopharyngeal paraganglioma with a paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome: a case report.

BACKGROUND We report an extremely rare case of hypopharyngeal paraganglioma that was accompanied by a paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome (PNS). METHODS The clinical, radiological, and histopathologic findings of the patient are presented. RESULTS A 49-year-old woman presented with a history of progressive asthenia of the lower extremities persisting for 2 months. She also experienced numbne...

Otodental syndrome: three familial case reports.

Guillain Barre syndrome. Three case reports.

Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), was originally described by Guillain et. al in 1916 following two case reports. In 1936 Guillain himself described more cases in a further report} and since then this condition has been widely published. Several different terms have been used to describe this illness and these includes acute infective polyneuritis, acute febrile polyneuritis of OsIer and acute idi...

Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disease

The term paraneoplastic neurologic disease (PND) encompasses several degenerative central or peripheral nervous system disorders that result from indirect effects of systemic cancer on elements of the nervous system. By definition, the dysfunction does not result from invasion or metastasis by tumor. The concept of a remote or indirect effect of cancer on the nervous system arose in the latter ...

Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes.

Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes are degenerative diseases of the central or peripheral nervous system that develop in association with a systemic neoplasm without a direct invasion by tumor. The pathogenesis of this disorder has been hypothesized in the past, and now there is increasing evidence that autoimmune processes triggered by the underlying neoplasm play a major role in the pathophy...