Talk:Paraneoplastic syndrome

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[edit] PMID

PMID 15146039 is quite a comprehensive review of the neurological paraneoplastic syndromes. JFW | T@lk 12:04, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dubious

I have marked as dubious several of the conditions (mostly autoimmune diseases) that were included in the neurological paraneoplastic syndromes subsection, but are not listed in the named reference. In the case of Myasthenia gravis, it may be a confusion with LEMS. At some level, PND (paraneoplastic neurological disorder) means "an autoimmune disease that attacks your nervous system and which you mightn't have if you never had cancer," so it's possible that these are proper PNDs and they just need a source.

[edit] MG

Myasthenia, muscle weakness, is a paraneoplastic syndrome. As for autoimmune myasthenia gravis - that's a different story. There is a strong association between MG and thymomas (both benign and malignant) but even if a thymoma causes MG, that's a new disease by itself and not really a sign of PNPS. Rxminimalism (talk) 11:34, 17 February 2008 (UTC)