March 1, 1981Annals of Neurology

Progressive sensory neuropathy in patients without carcinoma: A disorder with distinctive clinical and electrophysiological findings

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Population

7 patients with severe progressive impairment of kinesthetic sense, mild dysfunction of cutaneous sense, and sparing of motor function, without evidence of cancer.

Outcome

Clinical and electrophysiological findings

Progressive sensory neuropathy can occur without an underlying carcinoma, presenting with indistinguishable symptoms from paraneoplastic cases.

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Implication

Progressive sensory neuropathy may occur without carcinoma; leaves open whether routine malignancy screening is required in all cases.

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Kaufman et al. (1981) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a884a66c0c64b7dddeb4396 https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.410090306

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Progressive sensory neuropathy in patients without carcinoma: A disorder with distinctive clinical and electrophysiological findings

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Progressive sensory neuropathy in patients without carcinoma: A disorder with distinctive clinical and electrophysiological findings

Structured PICO

Discussion

Implication

Cite This Study

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