Nervous system paraneoplastic syndrome

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In medicine, nervous system paraneoplastic syndrome are "degenerative or inflammatory conditions affecting the central or peripheral nervous system that develop in association with a systemic neoplasm without direct invasion by tumor. They may be associated with circulating antibodies that react with the affected neural tissue."[1][2][3]

Classification

  • Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
  • Limbic encephalitis
  • Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome
  • Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
  • Paraneoplastic polyneuropathy
  • Transverse myelitis

References