Paraneoplastic Guillain-Barré Syndrome in Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Case Rep Oncol

Department of Internal Medicine, Gangneung Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Gangneung, Korea.

Published: September 2015

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is defined as an acute, autoimmune polyradiculoneuropathy. It is a rare disease that occurs at a rate of 1.11 cases per 100,000 person-years. However, once infected, up to 20%percnt; of patients develop severe disability, and approximately 5%percnt; die. There have been reports of GBS in different cancers. Among them, there are 6 previous reports of GBS in small cell lung cancer. Here, we report a case of a 52-year-old man who was diagnosed with GBS in the setting of small cell lung cancer with chemotherapy.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4560330PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000437295DOI Listing

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