Tumors masquerading as neurological diseases: A caution for clinicians in planning diagnosis and treatment.

Autor: Vidhya Annapoorni, C, Retnaswami, Chandra, Mailankody, Pooja, Katragadda, Pavan, Pillai, Sivakumar, Rangarajan, Anush, Padmanabha, Hansashree, Pendharkar, Hima, Vidhya Annapoorni, C S, Retnaswami, Chandra Sadanandavalli, Pillai, Sivakumar Krishna
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Zdroj: Neurology India; Mar/Apr2020, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p368-372, 5p
Abstrakt: Introduction: Neurological diseases can be due to direct diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) or peripheral nervous system (PNS) or be a bystander syndrome of systemic diseases. Treatment options depend on the cause. Toxic, metabolic and nutritional, and immune-mediated consequences of clinically occult neoplasms produce a spectrum of neurological diseases, recognition of which has therapeutic and prognostic importance.Patients and Methods: Children, as well as adults who presented to the authors in the last 5 years with neurological diseases and later their diseases could be diagnosed or attributed to neoplasms which were occult, were included for the study.Observation: 28 patients were seen by the authors in the last 5 years with neurological manifestation and hidden tumor. Maximum incidence was in the age of above 60 years followed by the age group of 21-40 years. The commonest neurological presentation was muscle and nerve in adults and seizure in children.Discussion: Short duration, rapid progression, severe weight loss, and poor response to treatment given for nontumor associated neurological syndrome are the red flags which point to the diagnosis.Conclusion: Seizures and psychosis formed the commonest features in children, muscle and nerve in adults. Short duration, rapid progression, and resistance to treatment are the markers for possible underlying neoplasm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index
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