نتایج جستجو برای: paraneoplasic neurological syndromes
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The Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) are a heterogeneous group of heritable connective tissue disorders characterized by joint hypermobility, skin extensibility, and tissue fragility. This communication briefly reports upon the neurological manifestations that arise including the weakness of the ligaments of the craniocervical junction and spine, early disc degeneration, and the weakness of the ep...
Melanoma of the eye is rare, but can mimic a range of disorders. This report highlights 2 cases of choroidal melanoma with vision loss mimicking neurological diagnoses. The first patient is a 41-year-old white male with a known history of multiple sclerosis and a previous episode of optic neuritis in the right eye, who presented with a 6-month history of decreased vision in the same eye, and oc...
C ONSIDERING the fact that encephalitis lethargica practically disappeared before its virus was identified, the disease would have been important only out of historical interest and also because of the progress in neurology which it led to. However, the illness developed fresh significance as result of the striking similarities which cxist between the sequelae of the disease and the nervous syn...
Since time immemorial, generations of medical students and physicians have always been taught that a thorough and detailed history and examination is the foundation of the practice of good clinical medicine. This is particularly so in Neurology, in which the detection of an absent reflex or of focal weakness may assist in localisation of the lesion and, ultimately, in fixing the clinical diagno...
Paraneoplastic neurological disorders (PNDs) are syndromes that develop in cancer patients when an efficient antitumor immune response, directed against antigens expressed by both malignant cells and healthy neurons, damages the nervous system. Herein, we analyze existing data on the mechanisms of loss of self tolerance and nervous tissue damage that underpin one of the most frequent PNDs, the ...
A 57-year-old woman presented with a 4-years history of progressive weakness, distal muscular atrophy and myotonia in left hand (Figure 1). Her electromyography had a myotonic pattern. Patient was first diagnosed as paraneoplasic limbic encephalitis based on her brain MRI (Figure 2). Diagnosis was genetically confirmed for myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). DM1 or Steinert’s disease is an autosom...
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