Sensory neuropathy in paraneoplastic leucocytosis

Paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis/sensory motor peripheral neuropathy - an autopsy case study.

Paraneoplastic neurological anti-Hu syndrome is one of the most frequent remote effects of cancer and usually manifests as encephalomyelitis combined with peripheral neuropathy. Subacute sensory neuronopathy, which results from the inflammatory destruction of sensory neurone cell bodies in the dorsal root ganglia, is thought to be the principal presentation of peripheral neuropathy. In addition...

Leucocytosis in a case of Lung Cancer: Infection or Paraneoplastic Syndrome? - Dilemma in Diagnosis and Treatment.

A 65 year old male smoker was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of upper lobe of the right lung complicated with Horner's syndrome and gradually increasing leucocytosis. Alhough the inflammatory biomarker level in serum was low, there was no definite way to determine the cause of the leucocytosis (whether infection or hematologic paraneoplastic syndrome). After empirical antibiotic therapy...

Slowly progressive sensory hemisyndrome: unusual presentation of paraneoplastic sensory neuronopathy.

Dear Editor, A 59-year-old woman complained of slowly progressive unsteadiness, gait difficulties, and a left sensory hemisyndrome. She had smoked heavily until 2004. In October 2006, she complained of diffuse muscle pain and fever, and a chest computed tomography (CT) scan was normal. Four months later, right pulmonary arterial thromboembolism was diagnosed at repeat CT scan. Symptoms disappea...

Hereditary sensory neuropathy type

Hereditary sensory neuropathy type I (HSN I) is a slowly progressive neurological disorder characterised by prominent predominantly distal sensory loss, autonomic disturbances, autosomal dominant inheritance, and juvenile or adulthood disease onset. The exact prevalence is unknown, but is estimated as very low. Disease onset varies between the 2nd and 5th decade of life. The main clinical featu...

Congenital sensory neuropathy.