Myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer. Case report
Myasthenia gravis associated with extrathymic malignancies is a rarely diagnosed pathology in clinical practice. We report a case of myasthenia gravis-like syndrome associated with small cell lung cancer. A male patient has been diagnosed with 3 different paraneoplastic neurological syndromes: sens...
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Myasthenia gravis associated with extrathymic malignancies is a rarely diagnosed pathology in clinical practice. We report a case of myasthenia gravis-like syndrome associated with small cell lung cancer. A male patient has been diagnosed with 3 different paraneoplastic neurological syndromes: sensorimotor polyneuropathy, limbic encephalitis and myasthenia gravis-like syndrome which was confirmed by positive repetitive nerve stimulation test. The causal association between small cell lung cancer and myasthenia gravis as a paraneoplastic neurological syndrome (PNS) has not been officially confirmed yet. However, there is increasing evidence in the literature, that myasthenia gravis could be one of the PNS phenotypes of non-thymomatous malignancies.
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| spelling | doaj-art-08b8d543663d4847a4a03ba32b0c9f962025-01-20T18:23:18ZengVilnius University PressNeurologijos seminarai1392-30642424-59172018-03-01221(75)10.29014/ns.2018.08Myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer. Case reportR. Bunevičiūtė 0R. Masaitienė 1A. Klimašauskienė 2Vilnius University, LithuaniaVilnius University, LithuaniaVilnius University, Lithuania Myasthenia gravis associated with extrathymic malignancies is a rarely diagnosed pathology in clinical practice. We report a case of myasthenia gravis-like syndrome associated with small cell lung cancer. A male patient has been diagnosed with 3 different paraneoplastic neurological syndromes: sensorimotor polyneuropathy, limbic encephalitis and myasthenia gravis-like syndrome which was confirmed by positive repetitive nerve stimulation test. The causal association between small cell lung cancer and myasthenia gravis as a paraneoplastic neurological syndrome (PNS) has not been officially confirmed yet. However, there is increasing evidence in the literature, that myasthenia gravis could be one of the PNS phenotypes of non-thymomatous malignancies. https://www.journals.vu.lt/neurologijos_seminarai/article/view/27854paraneoplastic syndromemyasthenic syndromelung carcinoma |
| spellingShingle | R. Bunevičiūtė R. Masaitienė A. Klimašauskienė Myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer. Case report Neurologijos seminarai paraneoplastic syndrome myasthenic syndrome lung carcinoma |
| title | Myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer. Case report |
| title_full | Myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer. Case report |
| title_fullStr | Myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer. Case report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer. Case report |
| title_short | Myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer. Case report |
| title_sort | myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer case report |
| topic | paraneoplastic syndrome myasthenic syndrome lung carcinoma |
| url | https://www.journals.vu.lt/neurologijos_seminarai/article/view/27854 |
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