ALLMedicine™ Paraneoplastic Syndromes Center

Jun 14th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (MTC) accounts for less than 5% of all thyroid cancers. MTC is a neuroendocrine tumor that arises from the C cells of the thyroid, which do not accumulate radioiodine but do secrete calcitonin...

Jun 14th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (MTC) accounts for less than 5% of all thyroid cancers. MTC is a neuroendocrine tumor that arises from the C cells of the thyroid, which do not accumulate radioiodine but do secrete calcitonin...

Jun 14th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (MTC) accounts for less than 5% of all thyroid cancers. MTC is a neuroendocrine tumor that arises from the C cells of the thyroid, which do not accumulate radioiodine but do secrete calcitonin...

Jun 14th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (MTC) accounts for less than 5% of all thyroid cancers. MTC is a neuroendocrine tumor that arises from the C cells of the thyroid, which do not accumulate radioiodine but do secrete calcitonin...

Jun 2nd, 2022 - Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, and a significant proportion (20-40%) of patients with HCC develop paraneoplastic syndromes (PNS). Despite this, there is a paucity of clinical evidence regarding PNS in H...

Dec 7th, 2020 - This cross-sectional study was conducted in Shiraz. Clinical data were collected from the patients of Professor Kojuri cardiovascular clinic in Shiraz, Iran ( Iran, Fars Province, Shiraz, Niayesh Boulevard, Email: kojurij@yahoo.com, webpage: http:...

Feb 23rd, 2016 - Patients may stay either in-hospital while being treated with Tacrolimus, receive treatment as an outpatient, or a combination of the two. Additionally, patients who are too sick to be treated at Rockefeller University (RU) (eg. patients actively ...

Mar 30th, 2009 - Patients usually go to their doctors with neurological complaints and later find they have cancer, a known paraneoplastic syndrome, or neurological problems that suggest a paraneoplastic syndrome. Paraneoplastic syndromes are rare conditions in wh...

Dec 21st, 2021 - David Gerber, MD: Steve, it might be helpful at this point to go over how we diagnose and test for LEMS [Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome]. Steven Vernino, MD, PhD: As neurologists, when we see conditions that make us think about paraneoplastic ...

Apr 2nd, 2021 - For High-Definition, Click The effectiveness of cytoreductive nephrectomy as a standard of care for untreated patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) has been drawn into question with the introduction of targeted therapies. In some ...

Apr 14th, 2020 - The most common gastrointestinal site of metastatic spread in lung cancer is the liver. The most common sites of distant metastases in the body also include bone, the adrenal glands and intra-abdominal lymph nodes, the brain and spinal cord, and t...

May 24th, 2019 - Paraneoplastic Syndromes Associated With MCC Other paraneoplastic syndromes have been reported in association with MCC. A patient with brainstem encephalitis associated with MCC was reported in a trial of a novel immunotherapy for paraneoplastic n.

May 24th, 2019 - Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is an aggressive neuroendocrine malignancy of the skin that is thought to arise from neural crest cells. It has an estimated annual incidence of 0.