Myasthenia Gravis-Like Syndrome Presenting as a Component of the Paraneoplastic Syndrome of Lung Adenocarcinoma in a Nonsmoker

Adenocarcinoma of the lung is the most common form of lung cancer in nonsmokers. It is commonly seen in the periphery of the lungs. Myasthenia gravis is generally associated with mediastinal malignancies and rarely associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung. We present a case of a 38-year-old male n...

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Autores principales: Eivaz-Mohammadi, Sahar, Gonzalez-Ibarra, Fernando, Hekmatjou, Hesam, Mikkilineni, Rao, Patel, Amit, Syed, Amer K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4129963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25136468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/703828
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author Eivaz-Mohammadi, Sahar
Gonzalez-Ibarra, Fernando
Hekmatjou, Hesam
Mikkilineni, Rao
Patel, Amit
Syed, Amer K.
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Gonzalez-Ibarra, Fernando
Hekmatjou, Hesam
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description Adenocarcinoma of the lung is the most common form of lung cancer in nonsmokers. It is commonly seen in the periphery of the lungs. Myasthenia gravis is generally associated with mediastinal malignancies and rarely associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung. We present a case of a 38-year-old male nonsmoker with rapidly progressive adenocarcinoma of the lung associated with myasthenia gravis, a patient whom expired within 27 days of hospital admission and diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-41299632014-08-18 Myasthenia Gravis-Like Syndrome Presenting as a Component of the Paraneoplastic Syndrome of Lung Adenocarcinoma in a Nonsmoker Eivaz-Mohammadi, Sahar Gonzalez-Ibarra, Fernando Hekmatjou, Hesam Mikkilineni, Rao Patel, Amit Syed, Amer K. Case Rep Oncol Med Case Report Adenocarcinoma of the lung is the most common form of lung cancer in nonsmokers. It is commonly seen in the periphery of the lungs. Myasthenia gravis is generally associated with mediastinal malignancies and rarely associated with adenocarcinoma of the lung. We present a case of a 38-year-old male nonsmoker with rapidly progressive adenocarcinoma of the lung associated with myasthenia gravis, a patient whom expired within 27 days of hospital admission and diagnosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4129963/ /pubmed/25136468 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/703828 Text en Copyright © 2014 Sahar Eivaz-Mohammadi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Eivaz-Mohammadi, Sahar
Gonzalez-Ibarra, Fernando
Hekmatjou, Hesam
Mikkilineni, Rao
Patel, Amit
Syed, Amer K.
Myasthenia Gravis-Like Syndrome Presenting as a Component of the Paraneoplastic Syndrome of Lung Adenocarcinoma in a Nonsmoker
title Myasthenia Gravis-Like Syndrome Presenting as a Component of the Paraneoplastic Syndrome of Lung Adenocarcinoma in a Nonsmoker
title_full Myasthenia Gravis-Like Syndrome Presenting as a Component of the Paraneoplastic Syndrome of Lung Adenocarcinoma in a Nonsmoker
title_fullStr Myasthenia Gravis-Like Syndrome Presenting as a Component of the Paraneoplastic Syndrome of Lung Adenocarcinoma in a Nonsmoker
title_full_unstemmed Myasthenia Gravis-Like Syndrome Presenting as a Component of the Paraneoplastic Syndrome of Lung Adenocarcinoma in a Nonsmoker
title_short Myasthenia Gravis-Like Syndrome Presenting as a Component of the Paraneoplastic Syndrome of Lung Adenocarcinoma in a Nonsmoker
title_sort myasthenia gravis-like syndrome presenting as a component of the paraneoplastic syndrome of lung adenocarcinoma in a nonsmoker
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4129963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25136468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/703828
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