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Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc
July 2024
Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Hospital General de Zona No. 30, Servicio de Neurología. Ciudad de México, México.
Background: POEMS syndrome is a debilitating paraneoplastic disorder associated with plasma cell neoplasia. Clinically, it is characterized by predominantly demyelinating peripheral neuropathy that often starts in the pelvic limbs, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, skin changes, and elevated serum M protein. Diagnosis requires meeting a set of clinical criteria in which polyradiculoneuropathy and plasma cell disorder are the two mandatory criteria.
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June 2023
Servicio de Oncología y Hematología, Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
Gynecol Oncol Rep
February 2023
Department of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Neurological paraneoplastic syndromes are a rare subgroup of diseases commonly related to neuroendocrine tumors. However, they have been associated with uterine malignancies (sarcomas, endometrial carcinomas, and neuroendocrine cancers). Their presentation often correlates with a cancer diagnosis or cancer recurrence underlining their clinical significance.
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April 2022
Servicio de Geriatría, Hospital Central de la Cruz Roja San José y Santa Adela, Madrid, España.
Children (Basel)
October 2021
Child Neurology Unit, Neuroscience Department, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.
Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (OMS) is a neurological non-fatal disease that usually responds to immunotherapies. However, the real challenge is to counteract the high frequency of relapses and long-term developmental sequelae. Since the OMS is extremely rare, a common consensus regarding therapeutic guidelines is still lacking.
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