Paraneoplastic neurological syndrome presenting as myeloneuropathy in a patient with a known papillary thyroid carcinoma : a case report
Publication Date
2018
Document Type
Research
Abstract
Paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome (PNS) occurs in 1/10,000 of cancer cases, and is rare to be associated with papillary thyroid carcinoma. For this patient, though he already underwent a series of treatment for papillary thyroid cancer but still his response became variable unlike in other PNS associated with papillary thyroid cancer that had total resolution after treatment, it may be because there was still noted to have small functioning thyroid tissue remnant in the left side of the anterior neck. The carcinoma was not totally removed from the body thus making the responsible variable. Anti-neuronal antibody testing is only moderately sensitive but highly specific and there are no specific anti-neuronal specific for a certain type of cancer and there had been no reports of a papillary thyroid cancer patient yielding a positive paraneoplastic panel result. This may mean that we have yet to discover an anti-neuronal antibody which correlates with papillary thyroid cancer and PND.
APA Citation
Gantioque, Jean B.; Gutierrez, Josephine; and Pagsisihan, Daverick, "Paraneoplastic neurological syndrome presenting as myeloneuropathy in a patient with a known papillary thyroid carcinoma : a case report" (2018). Resident Research. 117.
https://greenprints.dlshsi.edu.ph/resident-research/117