Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 38-2001. A 51-year-old woman with lung cancer and neuropsychiatric abnormalities

N Engl J Med. 2001 Dec 13;345(24):1758-65. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc402001.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Antinuclear / blood*
  • Brain / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Small Cell / complications*
  • Carcinoma, Small Cell / diagnostic imaging
  • Cervical Vertebrae / pathology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • ELAV Proteins
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Gait Ataxia / etiology
  • Hallucinations / etiology
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / complications*
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Lymphocytes / blood
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Meningitis / complications
  • Meningitis / immunology
  • Meningitis / pathology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins / immunology*
  • Paraneoplastic Syndromes, Nervous System / complications
  • Paraneoplastic Syndromes, Nervous System / immunology*
  • Paraneoplastic Syndromes, Nervous System / pathology*
  • Paresthesia / etiology
  • RNA-Binding Proteins / immunology*
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Spinal Cord / pathology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Antibodies, Antinuclear
  • ELAV Proteins
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins
  • RNA-Binding Proteins