NECROTIZING MYELOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH VISCERAL CARCINOMA.
NECROTIZING MYELOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH VISCERAL CARCINOMA.
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与内脏癌相关的坏死性脊髓病。
DOI:
10.1093/brain/87.4.639
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发表时间:
1964
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通讯作者:
R. K. Rosales
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作者:
E. Mancall;R. K. Rosales
WITHIN recent years several distinctive disorders of the nervous system have been recognized as complications of malignant growths in the body apart from involvement by metastatic spread. The most clearly established of these are subacute carcinomatous cerebellar, or spino-cerebellar, degeneration (Brouwer, 1919; Casper, 1929; Parker and Kernohan, 1933; Greenfield, 1934; Brain et ah, 1951) and carcinomatous neuropathy (Auche, 1890; Denny-Brown, 1948; Wyburn-Mason, 1948; Lennox and Pritchard, 1950; Henson et ah, 1954; Heathfield and Williams, 1954); progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy (Astrom et ah, 1958; Richardson, 1961), occurring predominantly with lymphoma and chronic lymphatic leukaemia, may also be included in this group. Although the exact relationship between these disorders and the co-existing malignancy has not been clarified, it is often assumed that some metabolic fault secondary to the tumour may underlie their occurrence. In addition to such relatively well-defined entities, a degenerative process primarily involving the spinal cord has occasionally been described in association with neoplasms elsewhere in the body (Nonne, 1903; Nonne, 1919; Feindel, 1921; D'Antona, 1926; Moersch and Kernohan, 1934; Juba, 1938; Lhermitte and Bussiere de Robert, 1941; Jaffe and Freeman, 1943; Mathieson, 1963). The alterations have been distinct from both the secondary changes encountered in the cord in carcinomatous neuropathy and the systematized tract degenerations associated with carcinomatous cerebellar degeneration. The cases so reported have generally been characterized by a progressive ascending segmental sensorimotor deficit, abrupt in onset and rapid in evolution, terminating in death in a matter of days or weeks. Pathologically, a patchy and non-systematized but roughly symmetrical process of subtotal and total tissue necrosis involving