Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration as a presentation of breast cancer – a case report and review of the literature

Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration is part of a rare spectrum of neurological syndromes whereby gynaecological, lung or breast cancers present primarily with neurological manifestations. The presence of onconeural antibodies and PET scanning help in the challenging diagnosis of these conditions...

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Autores principales: Noorani, Alia, Sadiq, Zaid, Minakaran, Neda, Coleman, Catherine, Thomas, Val A, Mokbel, Kefah
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2373787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18426566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-5-8
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author Noorani, Alia
Sadiq, Zaid
Minakaran, Neda
Coleman, Catherine
Thomas, Val A
Mokbel, Kefah
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description Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration is part of a rare spectrum of neurological syndromes whereby gynaecological, lung or breast cancers present primarily with neurological manifestations. The presence of onconeural antibodies and PET scanning help in the challenging diagnosis of these conditions but despite the treatment of the primary cancer, the prognosis for the neurological symptoms is poor.
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spelling pubmed-23737872008-05-08 Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration as a presentation of breast cancer – a case report and review of the literature Noorani, Alia Sadiq, Zaid Minakaran, Neda Coleman, Catherine Thomas, Val A Mokbel, Kefah Int Semin Surg Oncol Case Report Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration is part of a rare spectrum of neurological syndromes whereby gynaecological, lung or breast cancers present primarily with neurological manifestations. The presence of onconeural antibodies and PET scanning help in the challenging diagnosis of these conditions but despite the treatment of the primary cancer, the prognosis for the neurological symptoms is poor. BioMed Central 2008-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2373787/ /pubmed/18426566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-5-8 Text en Copyright © 2008 Noorani et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Noorani, Alia
Sadiq, Zaid
Minakaran, Neda
Coleman, Catherine
Thomas, Val A
Mokbel, Kefah
Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration as a presentation of breast cancer – a case report and review of the literature
title Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration as a presentation of breast cancer – a case report and review of the literature
title_full Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration as a presentation of breast cancer – a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration as a presentation of breast cancer – a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration as a presentation of breast cancer – a case report and review of the literature
title_short Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration as a presentation of breast cancer – a case report and review of the literature
title_sort paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration as a presentation of breast cancer – a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2373787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18426566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-5-8
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