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Response to Cancer Therapy in a Patient with a Paraneoplastic Choreiform Disorder
Neurol 57:719-722, Croteau,D.,et al, 2001
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Article Abstract
The authors report a patients with chorea and multifocal neurologic a abnormalities associated with a small-cell lung carcinoma. A previously unreported antibody directed at a 76-kD neuronal protein antigen was identified in both serum and CS F. Antitumor treatment resulted in dramatic and sustained clinical neurologic and serologic responses.
 
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