Myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer. Case report
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R. Bunevičiūtė
Vilnius University, Lithuania
R. Masaitienė
Vilnius University, Lithuania
A. Klimašauskienė
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Published 2018-03-01
https://doi.org/10.29014/ns.2018.08
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Keywords

paraneoplastic syndrome
myasthenic syndrome
lung carcinoma

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Bunevičiūtė R, Masaitienė R, Klimašauskienė A. Myasthenia gravis as one of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with small cell lung cancer. Case report. NS [Internet]. 2018 Mar. 1 [cited 2024 Jul. 1];22(1(75):63-8. Available from: https://www.journals.vu.lt/neurologijos_seminarai/article/view/27854

Abstract

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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