INTRODUCTION Paraneoplastic neuropathies are rare. They are often difficult to diagnose, especially when they precede the diagnosis of cancer. Hodgkin's lymphoma is associated with multiple paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, of which demyelinating polyneuropathies are very unusual. Association with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is even more uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION ...

To develop diagnostic criteria for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), a retrospective series of patients' records diagnosed by sexpert consensus as CIDP or other chronic polyneuropathies were analyzed. Classification and regression tree analysis was applied to 150 patients to derive a classification rule. According to the rule, diagnosis of CIDP required that a patient ha...

Neurology 2012;79:730–731 There are frustratingly few specific treatments available for the 100-odd etiologies of polyneuropathy. Some notable exceptions aside (e.g., dapsone and rifampin for leprosy, IV immunoglobulin for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy), symptomatic treatments, such as ankle-foot orthoses or drugs for neuropathic pain, form the bulk of the therapeuti...

Primary intraosseous hemangiomas are benign, vascular malformations that account for approximately 1% of all primary bone neoplasms. These tumors are mostly found in vertebral bodies and are rarely seen in the calvarium, where they represent 0.2% of bony neoplasms. When found in the skull, they tend to present with vague symptoms and do not have the typical radiological findings suggestive of h...