Paraneoplastic encephalitis associated with myasthenia gravis and malignant thymoma
Paraneoplastic encephalitis associated with myasthenia gravis and malignant thymoma
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jocn.2011.05.026
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发表时间:
2012-02-01
影响因子:
2
通讯作者:
Sobue, Gen
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作者:
Miyazaki, Yu;Hirayama, Masaaki;Sobue, Gen
We present a patient with type B2 thymoma (World Health Organization Thymoma Classification) with the complications of anti-muscle acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive myasthenia gravis and anti-voltage-gated potassium channel antibodies associated with paraneoplastic encephalitis. A timing difference between the onset of these neurological disorders and a dissociation of clinical symptoms was observed during the disease. This report alerts clinicians that long-term follow-up is needed where patients have a residual thymoma and attention should be paid to other concomitant autoimmune disorders. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.